My Initial Thoughts

I have been all over this country, working with American families that cannot seem to make ends meet.  They have very little hope, to them it's like trying to keep their heads above the rapidly rising water.  Some nights they have to choose between heat or food, or whether their children will have enough to eat until the next check comes.  These families, unfortunately, are the lucky ones.  In countries such as Brazil, dozens of families live in the garbage dumps, building their houses out of the refuse they are forced to live in.  To them it's not a question of food or heat, it's more of a question as to if their children will be alive at the end of the month.  They have no medical care, no dental care, they don't even have proper bathrooms or showers.  The children in these situations, appear to have gotten the short end of some cosmic stick.  It doesn't seem fair that they should live in filth and starve, while other children have everything they could ever ask for.  What can we do about this? This is the topic of my research, and what I hope to discover by the end of this project.