1.1 How the Other Half Live
When one is poor, she has no say in public, she feels inferior. She has
no food, so there is famine in her house; no clothing, and no progress
in her family.
—A poor woman from Uganda
For a poor person everything is terrible—illness, humiliation, shame.
We are cripples; we are afraid of everything; we depend on everyone.
No one needs us. We are like garbage that everyone wants to get rid
of.
—A blind woman from Tiraspol, Moldova
Life in the area is so precarious that the youth and every able person
have to migrate to the towns or join the army at the war front in
order to escape the hazards of hunger escalating over here.
—Participant in a discussion group in rural Ethiopia