Old Women Work On Rubbish Dump A Survival Strategy Editorial Photo

Paraguay, city, capital Asuncion: group portrait of old women working in the recycling, collecting plastic bottles on the landfill. Their are no social services, in Paraguay and therefore people have to earn money, to work, during hole their life. A large part of the inhabitants, men and women, from the slum Banjado Sur live and work every day on the landfill, which is located in their residential area. Unemployment in Paraguay is large and because of this type of recycling, useful material can be collected from the garbage, these people can acquire income. The work is unhealthy and inhuman and is a form of fighting their poverty.