Feeling forgotten can be devastating. Their eyes pierced through me as if to reach into my soul. As I walked past these poor children, I was shocked that some of them only wore underwear and had no clothes or shoes to speak of. They watched our group of white Americans walk straight up to their neig

The big question about climbing Mount Everest that every person who has ever reached the summit is asked is, “Why? Why did you do it?" And the famous response is: "Because it is there." It is the same thing with poverty. Poverty is this ominous behemoth that casts its shadow over much of the world.