Venezuelan children pick through garbage for food and valuables

For some children in Venezuela, garbage is the main source of their livelihood. This has been the case for several generations of garbage collectors in Venezuela, among them Ronaikel Brito, 16, who, like his mother when she was a child, and before her, her grandmother, looks for something of value every day in a landfill on an arid plain about five hours west of the capital, Caracas. But their work has never been so challenging: The nation’s acute economic crisis and the stay-at-home orders prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have reduced trash output, making valuable findings rare. By Jan Pablo Arráez. Full Text -> Los Angeles Times

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