"卖一次淫，可以帮助一名失学儿童；当一回二奶，可以拯救一所希望小学"
The email is on this teacher who ended up prostituting herself to save a school. Only because we live in such a money-centric world where everywhere is money talks. Since time immemorial, women are subjected to such lewd treatment of exchanging their body for monetary gains. It is both a blessing and a curse I suppose. Because to allow oneself to degenerated into such state requires a tremendous amount of willpower. And because in this society, such occupation is despised by the norms.
But why is it such money earn ought to deserve the society's backlash? The ladies still put in effort and time. They don't rob. They don't steal. They don't hurt the innocent to get what they want. They only hurt themselves. I always felt they are a pedestal higher than those criminals.
And this email on how this teacher had to earn money, and give it almost all so that a school can be improved upon. So that children can study. She never survived to realise her dream of building a concrete school with 2 PCs. She was killed by her client. She was only 21.
Is this a real story? Did it really happen in Gansu? I can't check the credibility but I feel that one would not cook up such a story. I hope not.
Anyway the article I read is definitely true. It is about 2008 in photographs. The Big Picture was putting news stories in photographs.
These photos reminded me of 女王的学长, on how photographers captured such moments to be able to show the world the ugly truth. Photos like page 1 photograph 5 and 6 shows how fragile life is.
Photos like page 2 photograph 7 and 21 shows how far we are from world peace. (And ya the question on why are you saving the person instead of photographing the person probably pops into some minds).
Of course photos like 16 reminds us how miraculous the world can be with events like solar eclipse.
And I always like nature conservation photos e.g. page 2 photo 39
So many photos, so many afterthoughts, so much emotions..
It can't sum up 2008 but it is amazing to know that while I lead a peaceful 2008, out in the world how are these people living their 2008... Take a look at these 3 pages.
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
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