When young children have to dig through toxic landfills in hopes of earning enough money to buy a simple bowl of rice, we have failed as humans. This is not an Indian problem. It is a global problem that should bother each and every one of us. Poverty has no boundaries. Please don’t look the other way anymore. Together we can fix it by supporting incredible groups like Tiljala Shed (https://tished.org/). Sometimes we see a problem that seems so insurmountable that we ignore it thinking “What
| 0:00 | for 2 million people in India this is |
| 0:02 | their |
| 0:09 | home this is one of many dump sites |
| 0:12 | throughout the country where people have |
| 0:14 | to scour through literal mountains of |
| 0:16 | trash which often contains sharp objects |
| 0:18 | toxic waste and causes many diseases |
| 0:21 | that are often fatal only to make $3 a |
| 0:24 | day and because it is the country with |
| 0:26 | the highest global population India |
| 0:28 | generates 1.3 billion pounds of trash |
| 0:30 | every year and the increasing wealth |
| 0:33 | disparity between the rich and poor |
| 0:35 | means that millions of people rely on |
| 0:36 | sorting and selling this wayte in order |
| 0:39 | to simply survive forcing them to stay |
| 0:41 | trapped in this cycle this is simply |
| 0:44 | devastating I knew when we picked this |
| 0:46 | project that this was going to be |
| 0:49 | difficult but I had no idea how |
| 0:51 | heartbreaking it was going to be here |
| 0:53 | and witnessing this firsthand this is |
| 0:55 | just unlike anything I've ever seen |
| 0:58 | being a new father and having to see |
| 1:00 | children working in environment like |
| 1:02 | this just absolutely destroys me and I |
| 1:06 | don't really know how to describe it |
| 1:09 | it's not okay as human |
| 1:13 | beings we can do better than to all |
| 1:16 | stuff like this to happen but the dump |
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