I have been doing this here at the dump now for about 5 years, it is easy to become jaded over time. You see so many things that it becomes less noticeable, less upsetable because you have been there seen that. Tonight thou while shooting video on a pile of garbage the families were working I saw 2 things that stuck in my mind.
1) a young boy (Dao Way Auh or Win Lay Auh, think DWA) putting a bandage on his leg and then tying it up with a string he found in the garbage. He was so delicate, with his wound and everything round him was so filthy. He then went back to work.
2) his sister (do not know her name) but she smiles at me often now, for years did not but now does. I filmed her flipping through magazines she found in the garbage, fashion mags, shopping mags. Looking at pictures of well dressed people, jewelry etc. There she was this beautiful girl of maybe 12 or 13 living the ugly life she was living, but looking though a magazines filled with wonder, while standing knee deep in garbage. Fucked up, so fucked up. She should be chatting with her gfs about boys, going to school and preparing for a better life, not this, not doing this crap!
