Horrific pictures of Filipino children sifting through rivers of rubbish in desperate bid to find something to sell
Filipino youngsters spend hours sifting through rubbish they can recycle for just £2 a day
Materials including plastics and metals are taken to 'junk shops' who sell it on to China
Charities warn children and adults are risking diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and tuberculosis
Dangerous: Children in the Philippines are risking their lives to scavenge for recyclable materials to sell for scrap
Desperate: A girl sits on a makeshift styrofoam raft as she collects recyclable material from floating garbage in a polluted river at Navotas city, north of Manila
Scavenging: A boy sift through floating garbage as he collect recyclable materials in a dirty river
Unsafe: Children use makeshift boats to trawl the litter-strewn rivers of the Philippines, collecting recyclable materials
Poverty: A Filipino girl inspects the contents of a small bag scavenged from one of thousands of bags of garbage at the Payatas dump (file photo)
Dump: A girl scavenges for recyclable materials at a garbage dumpsite in Las Pinas, south of Manila in the Philippines (file photo)
Deadly: A Filipino man walks up a mountain of steaming decaying garbage to scavenge at the Payatas Dump in Quezon City. Thousands of the poorest Filipinos still scavenge for a living at the Payatas dump, despite a landslide killing hundreds in 2000
Clean up: A child swims in the waters full of water lilies and rubbish floating in Manila Bay as he participates in the clean up of the coastal areas near the Philippine capital Manila
A homeless woman eats in front of a garbage dump in a Manila bay in 2007 with social welfare groups and left-wing organisations maintaining that poverty is increasing in the Philippines
Philippines Children Living on Garbage Dump
They have no access to clean drinking water, food medicine or education even. And their chances of ever improving their own situation or the living conditions of the generations to come are near zero.
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