Victims of Garbage Dump

Hindi /EST/ 10min
Producer: Plan India

Subject Focus: Environmental pollution and hazards to health.

Summary: Through Rabia, an eight year old girl from the Bhalaswar slum of Delhi, the story focuses on the cycle of poverty, illness and deprivation that mars the population, which makes a living out of sorting garbage at Delhi’s largest garbage dump. Barefoot, the children who search for things they can sell, like iron, glass, plastic, rubber, copper, packaged food etc. face several health hazards. They are often cut and bruised by sharp pieces of broken glass, or hospital waste. They eat the packaged food thrown away by homes and companies. Most of the people in this slum suffer from various kinds of illness from TB to gastroenteritis, skin diseases to cholera. Moreover, the garbage dump is dangerous for children since they are often run over by the trucks and get injured. The film depicts the life of people in this garbage dump slum area.