Destitution

So, yesterday I posted that the beggars I had seen weren't desperate and dying. But this wasn't meant to judge, I had meant to counter the image I had of Calcutta.

Anyway, yesterday, we were on a block lined with destitute people sitting on the sidewalks the whole way down. On one sidewalk there was a mother and father sleeping under a tarp, while their 4 year oldish naked son was playing on the traffic side of a steel barrier. Here the whole family was destitute. Here there is another level of poverty.