Who is She?

She was a stunner, green eyes, great body and an exotic dress to boot. Anyone would give her a second glance even a third.

She was selling cowboy hats at the Chirag Dilli red light, wearing them all one on top of the other as she walked through the maze of cars.

Everyone from the autowallah to the bus passengers to the car drivers and their owners looked out to see her gliding past.

She made for a good shot for me while I waited for the red light to turn green.

And then we all went our ways forgetting her, forgetting her plight. She belongs to a tribe from Rajasthan that had to move from their ancestral dwellings in search of money and food. She is a bewildered person, who has been made poor and a destitute by the unthinking, uncaring attitude of the powers that be.

She is someone who has recently joined the ranks of the poor in Delhi.

How do we help? Buy one of her hats perhaps? Does that really solve the problem?

Today an initiative was on to talk about poverty through Blog Action Day. Mampi and IHM inspired me to join the effort, however though I registered the site didnt send the promised mail and my registration process couldn't be completed. I was disappointed but then I thought what the hell why should one mail stop me from doing a good deed and hence the post that you just read.
I don't have any solutions to this problem to offer so am only appealing for one thing we may be unable to pull someone out of poverty but lets not judge them as less human than us just because their clothes seem torn and faces streaked. They have all the rights too that the constitution gives us.