The Plight O Ragpickers
profession as rag pickers
They are not paid by the state, relying instead on donations from the communities they serve and on meager profits from the sale of discarded items. they pick through refuse — shards of glass smeared with the remains of yesterday’s dinner, broken shoes mixed in with rotting meat — with bare hands.
The shanties and waste that clutter their lives put them at a risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. The scrawny paths that lead to these small hovels are covered in slime spewed by local drainsMany of the rag picker’s suffer from back-pain, from the continuous strain of bending over to pick up waste. spend much of their earnings on bribes and rent. They live in a cluster of shelters made from plastic sheeting and corrugated metal near a 70-acre public landfill site. The work is hard and life tough under any weather conditions and have to searchthrough hazardous waste without gloves or shoes.hey often eat the filthy food remnants they find in thegarbage bins or in the dumping ground
These accidental environmentalists work unnoticed, often late into the night, searching and sorting through our trash for anything that can be sold to wholesalers and shopkeepers
As they sift through garbage unprotected, they absorb toxins from the garbage. They are hunched for hours, which gives them several back and cervical problems at early age. It is sad that ragpickers who clean up our dirt and contribute to environment are harassed by both police and municipal workers. They need to bribe municipal workers to forage into garbage bin. Police, instead of protecting them, often beats them and forces them to sweep police stations and municipal offices. Bullies also snatch their hard-earned meager sum, landing them into vicious cycle of debt
Their day started from as early as 5 am in the morning and went on until it was
They are not paid by the state, relying instead on donations from the communities they serve and on meager profits from the sale of discarded items. they pick through refuse — shards of glass smeared with the remains of yesterday’s dinner, broken shoes mixed in with rotting meat — with bare hands.
The shanties and waste that clutter their lives put them at a risk of respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. The scrawny paths that lead to these small hovels are covered in slime spewed by local drainsMany of the rag picker’s suffer from back-pain, from the continuous strain of bending over to pick up waste. spend much of their earnings on bribes and rent. They live in a cluster of shelters made from plastic sheeting and corrugated metal near a 70-acre public landfill site. The work is hard and life tough under any weather conditions and have to searchthrough hazardous waste without gloves or shoes.hey often eat the filthy food remnants they find in thegarbage bins or in the dumping ground
These accidental environmentalists work unnoticed, often late into the night, searching and sorting through our trash for anything that can be sold to wholesalers and shopkeepers
As they sift through garbage unprotected, they absorb toxins from the garbage. They are hunched for hours, which gives them several back and cervical problems at early age. It is sad that ragpickers who clean up our dirt and contribute to environment are harassed by both police and municipal workers. They need to bribe municipal workers to forage into garbage bin. Police, instead of protecting them, often beats them and forces them to sweep police stations and municipal offices. Bullies also snatch their hard-earned meager sum, landing them into vicious cycle of debt
Their day started from as early as 5 am in the morning and went on until it was