Recycling for survival

in streetphotography •  7 years ago 

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2 Young Boys in Phnom Penh collecting plastic bottles and cardboard boxes to sell to the recyclers.

Sadly, this is a daily event for many young children growing up in poorer families in Cambodia. These children are lucky enough to have parents and a home to live in, yet this is still a daily requirement to keep food on their table.
Collecting people's waste, while pulling a cart in 40°c heat, just to put food on the table.... Makes me wonder what goes through their head as they walk along side all those luxury vehicles.

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I'm afraid to imagine what issues are spinning in their small heads. But, I am sure that after your article I will work harder so that my children will never suffer the same fate. Giving you and Love.

Я боюсь представить, какие вопросы крутятся в их маленьких головах. Но, я уверен, что после Вашей статьи я буду трудиться еще усердней, чтобы моих детей никогда не постигла та же участь. Удачи Вам и Любви.

Wow, that is really sad. I always wonder too what is going through kids heads as they see and do things around here. Saw at the bus station at the border recently a grandma pulling around her little shoeless (grand?)daughter even though grandma was wearing shoes. She was asking people for money. Then she pulled her across the dirt/rock parking lot. Anyway, thanks for this thought provoking pic!

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