Friday, September 27, 2013

Poverty Is About More Than Hunger...

...it's also about hygiene. As part of the two dollar challenge, students were not allowed the use of showers, since on a $2 per day budget they would not be able to afford indoor plumbing. They were allowed to bathe and take "sink-baths," but there are limits to how clean one can get in that manner. It is particularly difficult to wash one's hair.

(Student 1):" I cannot wait until I can take a nice shower. My hair is so gross! My friends have shunned me from sitting with them at the library, so I'm sitting all alone and am smelly apparently."

(Student 2): "Loving my greasy hair!!!! not...."

(Student 3): "This whole no showering is making me feel completely disgusting, I'm not so sure how people go without showers everyday of their lives. IT IS AWFUL. "

(Student 4): "I went to the soccer game today and one of the people I know was like aren't you doing that 2 dollar challenge thing? and I said yeah and they go that means you can't shower and I said no... and everyone around me was so grossed out."

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