Summary Of Flavio's Home

In “Flavio’s Home” the home life is beyond awful. The lives of everyone in the slums have been just poor and miserable, they have no money and no clean supplies to live on. In this essay I will tell you about the living and health situations, water and food supply, and how the slums have changed. It is a shame because these people live like this day in and day out for their whole lives and it never changes. “I’ve never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human afflictions, claiming victims who can’t mobilize their efforts against it, who often lack strength to digest what little food they scrounge up to survive. It keeps growing, multiplying, spreading like a cancer.” (Parks 1) Even in today’s world, there are so many people living in poverty. It has not changed at all, in fact it has moved all the country. The health and living situations in Catacumba are disturbing when you realize how people live everyday. For one, they live in shacks that are falling apart. They have holes in the floors for their …show more content…
That Flavio has to cook everyday instead of one of his parents. Flavio has to climb the mountain every day to get a tin of water, that assuming is heavy, while he is only twelve years old. The mountain is not safe to walk on and is all uphill or all downhill. They have to reuse the same bucket of water all day long. For things such as cooking dinner and then to bathe, then he gets on his hands and knees and scrubs the floors afterwards. They have very few pots to cook with and they eat the same food everyday, rice and beans. Because they only have two plates and forks, for the parents to use, the children have to eat off of coffee can tops or anything they can find and they eat with their fingers. They need more water sources and a large amount and variety of food available to