Field Trip to Wadi Adim |
Every year during the holy month of Ramadan, the company I work for tries to do something to help the local villagers. This year, we took 30 bags of cement to a village in Wadi Adim to help them patch some crumbling walls in the school. I was invited along to help deliver the cement. The village is about an hour's drive from our site. It is really quite isolated and the poverty is obvious. I read recently that Yemen is the 10th poorest country in the world (to get a perspective, Canada's GDP per capita is about $39,000; Yemen's is less than $700). Here are a couple of pictures from the trip.
When the local oil company comes to town, it is quite a big deal and within minutes there was at least 20 young boys and a few adults checking us out. After I started taking some pictures, they were all very interested in getting into my photos. Check out a brief slide show of the Yemeni boys.
When the local oil company comes to town, it is quite a big deal and within minutes there was at least 20 young boys and a few adults checking us out. After I started taking some pictures, they were all very interested in getting into my photos. Check out a brief slide show of the Yemeni boys.
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