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My husband was recently in the capitol city of New Dehli.  He was describing their unsanitary living conditions.

There are people just living everywhere along the streets.  Their houses are make-shift tents, and they cook their meals in pots alongside the road.  The smog is suffocating.  The sewage system is lacking, and the water is polluted in many areas.  He want even leave his luxury hotel to go outside, and he says the hotel smells are even uncomfortable to breathe.  The hotel sprays all of these flowery-type fragrances inside in hopes of masking the horrible smells seeping in from the outside.  There are men walking around with machine guns in the lobby, likely keeping people out and acting as a deterrent to potential terrorists.

I cannot imagine living in these conditions and what that must do to the health and education of the Indian population.  I was trying to explain this to my kids today while showing them on the map where their father had been traveling.  This was in the midst of them watching a cartoon and eating pizza in their clean, warm pajamas.  Maybe we can travel there one day when they are older.  Maybe they will invent or design something to help these impoverished countries.  “Always good to dream big”, I tell them.  You never know..