Cateura Research Paper

In a country called Paraguay, there is a town known as Cateura. The town is located on a landfill, which is an enormous hole in the ground filled with garbage. Three million pounds of garbage are added to the landfill each day.

The people of Cateura often search through the landfill to find things they can use. Sometimes they find stuff that is valuable enough to sell. Other times they make things out of the junk they find. This gave one teacher in Cateura an idea. His students had never played music before. Maybe they could make instruments out of garbage.

The students used their imagination as they searched for objects. The first instrument they made was a violin. It had parts that came from cans, old plastic, and bent forks. Then they