Many children in Africa have to walk kilometres to drink clean water. The difficult access to clean water causes millions of deaths and preventable diseases among children. These poor countries in Africa lack money for water infrastructures and they do whatever to get some water. Hunger, malnutrition and poverty are the consequences of the dryness of these countries.

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In the middle of this photography we can see a little child, who must be four or five years old. He is all skin and bones and has got a dark complexion, so he might be from an African country. He has got a shaved head and a twinkling and sorrowful eye expression; he could be scared and tired. His face is round, and his nose and mouth are small. He is wearing a huge, white, plain and long-sleeved shirt; some baggy and dark trousers and a pair of wasted shoes. He is lonely in the middle of a puddle, surrounded by trash and mud, trying to get a little of water with an old and dirty bottle, this boy may be living in dreadful conditions, which could have been caused by wars, lack of resources, droughts… The power of one and the boy's gaze, makes you put in his eyes and feel what is the real poverty.

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No one can choose where to be born or the situation in which you have to live. Although everyone knows that there are many people living in poverty who could not do anything, few people do things to change that. As Nelson Mandela said: “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.” We have to start making great changes to solve this problem, the citizens with small actions and the politicians with better interventions. Poverty is not searched; it is caused by the selfishness of the society in which we live.