Water Issues and Nice Smiles

Our world needs saving. Climate change grips its hammer menacingly at our backs and we humans still have to deal with the harm we do each other via acts of war. World population is growing at an alarming rate, while food crisis and poverty is beating humans in many quarters. So the world needs saving. But not many of us know this, because there's always going to be the 'haves' who we must forgive for not understanding how someone could live on less than a dollar a day and have basically no access to meaningful education, clean water or good sanitation; and we have the 'haves-not', who live the life but who may not really understand the threat tomorrow is laden with, seeing as surviving today is all that matters.

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to pen down this much. I was just going to introduce you to this awesome chronicler of life and beauty and of stories of people who are not so privileged. Images speak louder than words sometimes, you know. So a photographer that works as an international development professional, specializing in and passionate about access to clean drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene has a very loud and clear voice on these relevant issues. His name is Nick Rice Chadeau. He travels the world working for UNICEF and taking great shots of the things he's passionate about.

The way the artist captures these innocents who smile like they do not know what fear means, like they're the richest folks in the whole world - sublime! Don't you think so?

Photo Credit: Instagram @niconico

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