When Did I See You Hungry?

When Did I See You Hungry?

This book is about poverty and our responsibility to help those who are forced to live on the margins of society. The photographs in this book depict real people-suffering souls whose lives are spent in the harshly cruel prison of poverty. To look into their eyes, eyes that are profoundly human and tragically sad, compels the observer to want to do something to relieve the pain, to end the misery. - From the Introduction"Gerry Straub is a modern-day Francis, jolting us into the truth by the power of images." - Giacomo Bini, O.F.M., Minister General of the Order of Friars MinorDrawn by the values and example of Francis of Assisi, filmmaker and author Gerard Straub spent months living among the poor of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto, Rome, Nairobi, Brazil, India, the Philippines and Jamaica. "Armed only with a pen and a 35-mm camera," he listened to their stories, photographing the men, women and children who live desperate lives of poverty and hunger.When Did I See You Hungry? is a powerful exploration of the desperation and squalor that is the plight of the poor.Review...the poignant, heartbreaking story of the homeless and poor that challenges and encourages us to respond. -- Central California Catholic Life, Diocese of Fresno...will bring us closer to a reality suffered by millions of our fellow humans... --Daily News Record, Harrisburg, VAAbout the AuthorGERARD THOMAS STRAUB is the author of the critically acclaimed The Sun and Moon Over Assisi: A Personal Encounter with Francis and Clare (St. Anthony Messenger Press), a book of reflections on the two saints of Assisi that earned the 2001 Catholic Press Association first place award for Spirituality-Hardcover books and was named one of Spirituality & Health magazine