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As trucks arrive with garbage, eager dump dwellers go through the refuse looking for salvageables.
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Cows, horses, goats, dogs, cats, birds, rodents, and small children live off the dump.
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No child labor laws here! |
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A hard worker looking for plastic bottles. |
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Your camera eye-piece often fogs with tears. |
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No one at home to watch the children when mom goes to work on the dump. |
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Should he work? Should he play? Should he cry? |
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Dump dwellers work on two carbage trucks at once. |
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Waiting for another truck filled with city garbage to arrive. |
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Grandma finds an empty plastic milk container filled with hospital waste (hypodermic needles).
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Marianna - 5 years old - 2005 |
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Marianna - 5 years old - 2005 |
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Marianna - 6 years old - 2006 - cleaned up to go to the doctor. |
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Marianna - 6 years old - 2006 - cleaned up to go to the doctor. |
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The students greet each Rotarian and thank them for coming to their school |
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Frank Huezo and Jim Kite are the two Rotary leaders representing Hope and Relief International Inc. |
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Children having received Rotary Christmas boxes. |
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The school has students from 5 to 17 years of age. |
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A smile for the camera man. |
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Children everywhere love to giggle |
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Trying to break the Christmas piņata
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Rotarians mingling with the children after arriving at the school |
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This may be the only Christmas gift they get! |
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The first high school graduation from students taken off the dump - 2006 |
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