CCWC mag Sept-Oct 2020_web

People gather plastic from all over Mumbai to sell for recycling, and the street
laundry cleans the linen for nearby hospitals and many residents of the city.
going on. The protests were over the
right to vote democratically. Mainland
Chinese government had directed that
only mainland leaders could be elected.
We (my wife Barb and my two daughters
and I) took a train into nearby Shenzhen,
in southeastern mainland China. Many
people from Hong Kong commute to
work in factories in Shenzhen and hundreds
of commuters were carrying large
cans of baby formula under their arms;
at the train platform in Shenzhen hundreds
of people converge on the arriving
commuters and purchased the baby
formula from them. We learned that
people in mainland China did not trust
the baby formula that is supplied by the
government, as there had been a massive
scandal in which baby formula had been
laced with chemicals that made babies
sick. It made us realize how lucky we are
that we have no such concern when we
go to the corner grocery store in Canada.
In a modern world of expedience and
convenience some areas of the world lack
the accessibility to these comforts and
amenities. The Dharavi slum in Mumbai
(picture taken by me in 2017). Over one
million people live in the slum, which is
in the middle of the city. The interesting
thing about Dharavi is the industry that
residents have built around it. People
gather plastic from all over Mumbai to
sell for recycling, and the street laundry
cleans the linen for nearby hospitals and
many residents of the city. Our travels
(my wife Barb and I) in India have driven
home for me the disparity that still exists
in the world, and how fortunate we
are in Canada to live comfortably and,
for the most part, not have to struggle
every day just to survive. In India, one
billion people coexist, many with almost
no money and barely able to make it day
to day. The freedom of convenience is a
foreign concept for many. In a way, convenience
stores are a symbol of our success
in the global north, a trademark of our
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