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Photo credit: Sebastiao SalgadoHigh in the Andes mountain range in Ecuador, this little girl tends the family's sheep. As the men of the poor Ecuadorian villages move into the larger cities for higher paying jobs, the women and children are left behind to take care of the livestock and village affairs. To make strenuous matters worse for these villagers, reports say that in the early months of 1998 sudden cases of plague and disease broke out in the communities of Chimborazo, Ecuador.
What does it mean to be a refugee? Sometimes it's not a soldier or a war that forces someone to pack up their belongings and search for a better life. Sometimes it's a simple as 'surviving.' This photograph eloquently portrays the conditions of the silent refugee; no gunshots, no exploding bombs, just a struggle for survival.
Works Cited:
Salgado, Sebastiao. Pamphlet. "Abandoning the Land in Ecuador." Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Aperture: New York, 2000. 19. Print.
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Aperture: New York, 2000. 266.
"An Outbreak of Plague Including Cases With Probable Pneumonic Infection, Ecuador, 1998." Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Elsevier Inc, 18 Jan. 2000. Web. 17 Feb. 2010.
This picture looked so familiar to me. I served in Peru which is just south of Equador and this truely does reflect the lives of many I have seen in person. Your paragraph says it all. Truely, in those areas of South America there may not be many bombs or gunshots but the true struggle for life.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post! It was short...and you followed what we were asked to do. To me the photo looks so peaceful, yet, with your perspective I can feel the tension...especially in such a young age. I am reminded of what we talked about in class... just how much responsibility is placed in the hands of the young children.
ReplyDeleteexcellent post. thank you.
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