World Vision Report - Week of March 13, 2010

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Week of March 13, 2010

Garbage Picker

Conrad Fox/World Vision Report

Description

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." This saying is certainly true in Mexico. At the garbage dump in Oaxaca City, several families make a living by picking through other people's trash to find things to sell.

Conrad Fox reports.

Encore presentation from January 31, 2009.

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Date

Mar. 13, 2010

Location

Mexico

Reporter

Conrad Fox

Keywords

refuse garbage children poverty

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Read Conrad Fox's blog on what it was like to work alongside the garbage pickers in Oaxaca.

Salvage workers in Haiti (Feb. 27).

Garbage as cooking fuel in Kenya (Jan. 9).

Garbage pickers in the Philippines (Aug. 31, 2008).

Garbage pickers in the West Bank (Oct. 11, 2008).

Other recent stories from Mexico in the World Vision Report:

- Top of the Pops - Belanova (Mar. 13)
- Toymaker in Mexico (Feb. 27)
- Chocolate Atole (Feb. 20)
- Mexican Quake Response (Jan. 23)
- Camotero Cart (Jan. 9)
- Lila Downs (Jan. 2)
- Missing the Train (Jan. 2)
- Backpack Music (Dec. 5, 2009)
- No Phones (Nov. 28, 2009)
- Mushroom Festival (Nov. 7, 2009)
- Day of the Dead (Nov. 7, 2009)
- Patient Zero (Oct. 17, 2009)
- The Secretes of Mole (Oct. 10, 2009)
- Mariachi Bands (Sep. 12, 2009)
- Corrupt Teachers (Aug. 15, 2009)
- Migration Photos (June 27, 2009)
- Black Mexico (May 16, 2009)
- Begging in Mexico (May 9, 2009)
- Border Violence (Mar. 28, 2009)

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