Sensitive hearts

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When travelling around the world, you make various experiences, see gorgeous things, meet and know different people, in a word : you grow as a person.

At the same time you see also harsh situations, things hard to swallow, for a westerner. Cultural codes completely different from ours, poverty, hunger and despair.

Every living being should have the right to live a life with dignity and without sufferings, but sadly it’s just not the way this world is.

And of course, because of our cultural habits we tends to notice and be shocked when the sufferings hit those we consider the most vulnerable: children and animals. Whether this is right or wrong , that’s where our sensitive hearts are struck the most.

Here’s a few little suggestions from our experience, to avoid worsen things while sincerely trying to help:

- NEVER give money to children. They are often exploited by greedy adults. Remember, before leaving, to pack some items useful to them like small toys, notebooks, pencils. They will hopefully stay in their hands longer than money.

- HAVE some extra biscuits, water, and a small bowl in your backpack to give some relief to all those skinny, stray animals you will meet everywhere on your track.

If you want to test your sensiteve heart. Click on a picture below and browse the gallery that conteins some children and animals we’ve met along the way during these years of travelling.

The gallery contains mostly shots taken by Sigfrido (…you can tell) and others taken by chance, with a small camera, of lower quality. But this time quality was not important as the content and testimony.