Looking out of a window, upon waking in the morning, you can tell it is Saturday without consulting a time piece or a calendar. Already, the familiar mother with her two-year old child astride her side is already looking through lined up garbage bins put out the night before by residents for scheduled garbage collection. Like other Saturdays, she hopes to find thrown bottles, tin cans, cardboards, paper bags … anything useful or recyclable that could be sold. On another end of the street way, two lanky and disheveled boys compete with her speed. Like her, they scout for disposed furniture pieces, leftover metal from construction projects, and the like. Like flies or ants attracted by a certain object, they double or triple in number and crowd the neighborhood. A day’s find might generate Php200.00 … enough for a kilo of rice, some vegetables and fish god for a family’s day meal. You surely could appreciate their resilience and motivation to get up every possible day they are able to get going, and to live up to the potential of every waking day.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Backbones: Scavengers
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Looking out of a window, upon waking in the morning, you can tell it is Saturday without consulting a time piece or a calendar. Already, the familiar mother with her two-year old child astride her side is already looking through lined up garbage bins put out the night before by residents for scheduled garbage collection. Like other Saturdays, she hopes to find thrown bottles, tin cans, cardboards, paper bags … anything useful or recyclable that could be sold. On another end of the street way, two lanky and disheveled boys compete with her speed. Like her, they scout for disposed furniture pieces, leftover metal from construction projects, and the like. Like flies or ants attracted by a certain object, they double or triple in number and crowd the neighborhood. A day’s find might generate Php200.00 … enough for a kilo of rice, some vegetables and fish god for a family’s day meal. You surely could appreciate their resilience and motivation to get up every possible day they are able to get going, and to live up to the potential of every waking day.
Looking out of a window, upon waking in the morning, you can tell it is Saturday without consulting a time piece or a calendar. Already, the familiar mother with her two-year old child astride her side is already looking through lined up garbage bins put out the night before by residents for scheduled garbage collection. Like other Saturdays, she hopes to find thrown bottles, tin cans, cardboards, paper bags … anything useful or recyclable that could be sold. On another end of the street way, two lanky and disheveled boys compete with her speed. Like her, they scout for disposed furniture pieces, leftover metal from construction projects, and the like. Like flies or ants attracted by a certain object, they double or triple in number and crowd the neighborhood. A day’s find might generate Php200.00 … enough for a kilo of rice, some vegetables and fish god for a family’s day meal. You surely could appreciate their resilience and motivation to get up every possible day they are able to get going, and to live up to the potential of every waking day.
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