In these challenging times, isn\u2019t it true that we tend to focus only on our own difficulties, possibly just noting the numbers of people approaching social services or knocking on the doors of charitable organisations?<\/p>\n
In doing so, we essentially fail to acknowledge the courage of these very families striving to live with dignity, their ingenuity in facing continual challenges, the pain these men and women inflict on themselves in poorly-paid, arduous, dangerous work that is often undeclared.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s listen to the lessons these families in extreme poverty teach us about courage, endurance, and dignity.<\/p>\n
Failing this, we would miss out on so much, and these unsettling times would have taught us nothing.<\/p>\n
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