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Meet The People Too Poor To Grow Old In Hong Kong by Hamxas: 9:15am On May 10, 2016 |
Hong Kong, China - In shadows cast by
streetlights in the pre-dawn hours, a
diminutive figure shuffles along,
hunched over a cart.
She stoops to pick up a discarded
piece of cardboard. Other people's
rubbish is much-needed income for
her.
This is how Fok Po Po starts the day,
seven days a week, in Hong Kong's
stifling humidity, torrential rain and
epic thunderstorms.
Fok Po Po - or "grandma" in
Cantonese - is 66. She's worked hard
all her life and invested in a
retirement fund.
But in Hong Kong, one of the world's
most expensive cities, Fok Po Po is
one of a growing number of elderly
people resorting to collecting rubbish
to survive.
In this city of seven million people,
where more Rolls-Royces roam the
roads than anywhere else on earth,
about one third of residents aged over
65 live in poverty.
They are the face of Hong Kong's |
Re: Meet The People Too Poor To Grow Old In Hong Kong by Nobody: 1:10pm On May 10, 2016 |
And that's the downside of modern civilization. People are uprooted from villages to cities and in the process, cut off from preexisting traditional social welfare systems. |
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