Understanding

All too often we are drawn into a smaller world and take comfort in such, our source of information being a media out of touch. We are given standards, fed superlatives and led to believe that their hopes are ours. Then there are the people being presented here, as some would describe ‘the other half.’ From the minute they wake up to the moment their eyes find rest, sustenance is sought. Parents sweat through the day, exchanging their labor to calm the hunger of their children. The basic belief behind this work is that the common is uncommon. It is the face of our brother in another region of the world that may bear hope. It is the expression of our sister across another continent that may provide understanding. It is at a time such as the present when such understanding is essential.