A slum in Bangkok seen from the Amari Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Houses on stilts over a Klong.

A slum in Bangkok seen from the Amari Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand in May 2016. Houses on stilts over a Klong.

Sign of a Maori woman in Wellington, New Zealand. I want to give some real change says her sign. Help stop begging on the street. Give to the Alternative Giving Fund

Sign of a Maori woman in Wellington, New Zealand in January 2017. I want to give some real change says her sign. Help stop begging on the street. Give to the Alternative Giving Fund

Hovels on the banks of the Chao Praya River in Bangkok, Thailand

Hovels on the banks of the Chao Praya River in Bangkok, Thailand in June 2016

Squatter camp in Cape Town, South Africa

Squatter camp in Cape Town, South Africa in February 2015

Poor box

Poor box in St Luke's Anglican Church in Richmond, Tasmania in May 2013

Live below the line

Live below the poverty line poster at the University of Canberra in Canberra in May 2012. No one in Australia can live on $2 a day

Tattered jeans

A poor man with tattered jeans in Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima), Thailand in September 2012

Rundown shop

Seedy looking shop in Had Yai, Thailand in January 2012

Living in Sapa

A house at Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Ubon shack

A shack in Ubon Ratchathani Thailand, in August 2010. Genuine poverty

Make poverty history

A make poverty history sign at Commonwealth Park, Canberra in December 2010

Poor family

A destitute family in Yangon, Burma, in August 2010

Down town Yangon

Down town Yangon, taken from the Sakura Tower in August 2010

Make poverty history

End poverty now poster at the University of Canberra in Bruce, Canberra in April 2010

Thatch house

Houses in a village near Mae Chan in northern Thailand in December 2009

Basic apartments

Residences near Krung Thonburi road in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2009

Living here?

Is someone living here? Photographed by Krung Thonburi road in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2009

At the front door

Young women outside a house on Mactan Island, Philippines, in March 2009

Mactan Island house

A house made of nippa palm on Mactan Island, Philippines, in March 2009

Beach home

A house by the ocean on Mactan Island, Philippines, March 2009