NAN-H-29
Dwellers
Lagos, Nov. 28, 2016 (NAN) Miss Segun Taylor, a documentary photographer, has urged government at all levels to focus on the plights faced by citizens in the rural communities.
Taylor made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.
She said that in the course of her job, she had captured the challenges of rural dwellers through her photographs, adding that their sufferings must be addressed to enhance their welbeing.
Taylor said that she encountered the plight of the rural dwellers because she had always wanted to project their sufferings, especially in shelter, food, healthcare and clothing.
“As a documentary photographer, I was opportune to take photographs of many helpless children to project them to comfortable Nigerians.
“I always feel like shedding tears each time I sight children who lacked shelter and means of livelihood.
“Most of my works are on rural dwellers because I want comfortable Nigerians to empathise with these hapless people and stretch helping hands to them.
“I have the pictures where some sleep and eat near refuse dumps; that account for the reasons they die of strange ailments,’’ she said.
The photographer called on philanthropists, NGOs and corporate organisations to bail the rural dwellers out of their sufferings. (NAN)
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(Edited by Peter Ejiofor)