Tim Shank Analysis

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In 2015, Tim Shank, a young student of Toronto, decided to go on a humanitarian aid trip in Venezuela. The mission was to build a school and help the villager to have permanent job. When he arrived, Tim saw for the first time real poverty. But, before that trip, he always knew that poverty, the news spoked of it once in a while, history teacher talked about it once and he was always sad for the poor only when somebody talked about them. There’s a big difference between knowing it and seeing it. And that, Tim learned it when he arrive in the small village of Accuporo. For him, it was not a life, but survival. The people in the village lived with practically nothing and were totally cut from the world. No electricity, no gas station, no running