Thursday, November 15, 2007

Girl In Cambodian Garbage Dump


One of the most memorable things I saw during my 2006 trip to Cambodia were the little communities of people who live in the main city's garbage dump.


Abject poverty meets a thin ray of industry as people live literally on top of the garbage, in order to be best-positioned in the competition to salvage plastic and glass for re-sale.

Their will to survive was incredible... Lovely children with eyes full of the same innocence and hope one finds wherever you are, was more punctuated on the children we saw there because of the black, sticky funk which covered their hands and feet and was smeared here and there all across their faces and backs.

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