The following excerpt is from a June 7, 2010 article published by The Morning Star. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
By BROOKS VANDERBUSH
Contributing Writer
TRAVERSE CITY – For children in Zones 3 and 7 of Guatemala City the only things to climb on or play around were garbage.
These Zones encircle Guatemala City’s garbage dump, the largest such dump in Central America. It consists of literal mountains of unregulated refuse. The families living within this community depend on it for their livelihoods. Day in and day out they scavenge through the dump searching for items to sell, wear, eat and build their homes.
Until Safe Passage came along, this was the only world that the children knew…
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