Or, if you wish, huffing ass. I can't find the news story associated with this photo, but the caption reads:
A model parades in front of street children, some of whom are sniffing glue, in the drug-infested 'Barrio Triste' (Sad Neighborhood) in downtown Medellin in Colombia November 7, 2005. The event was organised to entertain the children by a member of a local charity that helps children in Barrio Triste by providing food, clothes and cleaning facilities.
Link, more photos here. Shot for Reuters by Albeiro Lopera. (Thanks, Kenneth Bowen, and ESC)
Reader comment: dice Martin Ligori,
I found a story related to this pic in a Mexican news site. In the article the show runner explains that this models are teenage girls from other barrios (large overpopulated outcast districts.) who dream about being "Top Models." An outcast once himself, he helps this girls now with a program, which provides them support for their careers in exchange for the promise to "stay in school".
"These girls are usually rejected by modeling agencies, which usually overlook them because they come from 'slums,'", they said. They started this shows in malls and shopping centers, but now they decided to move them to the 'hood and make it about homeless youth and glue-sniffers.
Currently the project helps about 30 girls in Medellin.
Alvaro Marin managed to put on the entire show by himself. He said he has been knocking on literally hundreds of doors to get people to collaborate, and donate stuff, music, clothes, makeup and time to these girls.
Besides the modeling shows, he also runs a company and acts in some indie movies.
Link to article in El Universal.
Reader comment: Los Angeles Food Not Bombs says (no really, all of them at once, in unison):
For at least the past two years, Sacramento Food Not Bombs has produced a "Men of Food Not Bombs, Sacramento" calendar for fundraising. Link
