Washington, June 21: "Hunger Exists Here." So proclaims a huge 5 feet x 16 feet Xavier Cortada mural hanging on the wall of a grey building in the heart of this capital city of the world's most powerful and richest nation.
The mural does not depict the hungry and homeless in some far off developing country, but some 35 million people across America, not just homeless but from working class families too who miss a square meal a day.
Today it hangs in the office of DC Central Kitchen, a non-profit "anti-soup kitchen" that also holds one of America's largest homeless shelters, a drug treatment programme and a health clinic. The kitchen provides culinary training and jobs for formerly homeless people.
