A few sweet potatoes. A handful of onions. Seventeen little
tomatoes. Spread them out on a mat in the shade. Sit beside them all day. Sell
them or barter them to feed your family.
This scene plays itself out around the
globe, every day, in places where the poor have never seen or even imagined a
“supermarket.” To vend is, quite simply,
to live. If you ask an MBB scholar
(lucky enough to still have a mother) in South Sudan or in Haiti, “What is your
mother’s occupation?” she will likely respond, “My mother sells in the market.”
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