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awkwardsituationist:

animal rights activist protest against meat consumption through a performance to promote vegetarianism during “day without meat” in central barcelona march 20, 2012.

photos albert gea, emilio morenatti

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Lagrimas de Sao Pedro (teardrops of saint peter) 6,000 light bulbs filled with water hang at a cultural center in rio de janeiro “to create the idea of rain, showing the relationship between peasants and rain after singing and praying for saint peter to cry”

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allahabad, india. photos rajesh kumar singh

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hindu sadhu with child on the banks of the Sangam. photos sanjay kanojia

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NEW DELHI (AP) — “their classroom is a flattened patch of dirt and rocks under the elevated rail tracks. their blackboards are rectangles painted on a chipped concrete wall. their teacher is a shop owner with no formal training, but a conviction that education is their only hope.

“for some of these dozens of children of poor migrant workers in India’s capital, this makeshift, open-air school under the rumble of mass transit is the only school they have. others who attend overcrowded and dismal government schools come here as well — to actually learn. here they are provided thanks to a single benefactor with free backpacks, socks and shoes

“india’s right to education act promising free, compulsory schooling to all children ages 6 to 14 was supposed to take full effect march 31, 2013, but millions of children still don’t go to school and many who do are getting only the barest of educations.

“so every morning, more than 50 children gather under the bridge for two hours of lessons at rajesh kumar’s informal school. they sweep the dirt flat and roll out foam mats to sit on, just meters from the bushes were several men had been squatting and defecating minutes earlier.”

photos altaf qadri

siriusstark:

awkwardsituationist:

98 year old dobri dobrev, a man who lost his hearing in the second world war, walks 10 kilometers from his village in his homemade clothes and leather shoes to the city of sofia, where he spends the day begging for money.

though a well known fixture around several of the city’s chruches, known for his prostrations of thanks to all donors, it was only recently discovered that he has donated every penny he has collected — over 40,000 euros — towards the restoration of decaying bulgarian monasteries and churches and the utility bills of orphanages, living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.

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