Hope and Faith at Tegucigalpa’s Dump

By Denia Hernández
Thousands of tons of garbage are piled up daily in Tegucigalpa’s landfill, constituting different sources of pollution, enabling many disease outbreaks, and endangering the lives of those who call this place work, and even home. Many families make a living out of digging through the mounds of waste hoping to find recyclable materials to sell, scraps to build their houses, and food for the day. Some of the “workers” live inside the dump or in the surrounding communities of El Guanabano and El Buen Samaritano, increasing the risk of property invasions. These people live below the line of poverty which means their income is not enough to afford goods from the basic basket and they lack the essential elements to develop their capacities as human beings. So they resort to the only source of income available to them: trash.

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