Friday, March 31, 2006
My new goal is not to buy anything with packaging.
"...All around rumble dumper lorries, horses and carts laden with refuse and men carrying giant bags of rubbish, like leafcutter ants, to sell for recycling. The activity never stops, and the priest’s voice is sometimes drowned out by the snarl of wild dogs fighting for scraps.
Father Guevara, a 70-year-old Jesuit, has been preaching to this lost flock for 21 years, arriving at the dump by Jeep every Wednesday morning. He has established a charity that helps 400 children living in or around the dump to go to school, eat three square meals a day and escape beatings from their parents. He provides food and rudimentary medical assistance for the rubbish pickers — the pepenadores — and they love him for it..."
Father Guevara, a 70-year-old Jesuit, has been preaching to this lost flock for 21 years, arriving at the dump by Jeep every Wednesday morning. He has established a charity that helps 400 children living in or around the dump to go to school, eat three square meals a day and escape beatings from their parents. He provides food and rudimentary medical assistance for the rubbish pickers — the pepenadores — and they love him for it..."
