💙 untitled on 500px by wang feng, Chengdu, China
☀  Canon EOS 70D-f/6.3-1/200s-180mm-iso200, 800✱1200px-rating:96.1

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Hashtag Challenge: #endpoverty

Poverty exists in wealthy and poor countries alike. How do you feel when you see poverty? What moves you to photograph it? What does the idea of ending poverty mean to you?

Before taking on this hashtag challenge, we want you to first think about what poverty is. Poverty can mean not having enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. It can mean not getting medical care when you need it or not being able to afford heat in the winter. Poverty can result in being excluded from society. Poverty and lack of opportunity often go hand in hand.

People can and have escaped it. Nearly a billion people have emerged from extreme poverty—defined as living on less than $1.25 a day—in the past 25 years. But nearly a billion people still live in extreme poverty, and millions more struggle to make ends meet.

That’s why we’re partnering for this photo challenge with the World Bank Group. The goal of the institution is to end extreme poverty by 2030—backed by 188 governments around the world. But it will need the support of everyone to succeed.

Think about this when you’re photographing. How are people helping other people live better lives? How are people helping themselves? What images of resilience can you find? Share your photos that best describe the term #endpoverty.

Photographs are powerful. They can bring attention to a problem. Maybe they can even help end poverty.

Nat Geo photographer Erika Larsen will choose the most compelling images, shared between July 8 and July 22, for an exhibition at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. Show us what ending poverty looks like in your community.

Photograph by M. Hafiz

💙 South Italy Hills on 500px by Giorgio Galano, Marzano Appio, italy
☀  Canon 6d-f/11-24mm-iso100, 3648✱5472px-rating:99.6
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