mel0dious:

“Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And it’s good money, which helps the local economy.

But it’s not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think they’ve really “seen” something — and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before.”

-Kennedy Odede, a Kenyan university student

hm.

i’ve always wondered what slum picture subjects thought of these mysterious, well-dressed people peering at them with one-eyed contraptions.