Smokey Mountain - Part 2

A child scavenging on the side of the road

Smoke and dust from Smokey Mountain

Children riding the dump trucks into the dump site so they can have a first look
at the garbage when it is dumped. Many children are injured or killed around
the heavy equipment.

Joshua (right) with his new friends on Smokey Mountain. Notice that
children have scavenging hooks and work together with the adults.

Celina and Tom (left) speak with a scavenging crew taking a break.

More houses on Smokey Mountain.

The scavenging people work around the heavy equipment

Houses in the dump

Scavengers working the dump

A fresh pile of cow skulls. The grainy dots are thousands of flies
and maggots the boy stirred up as he walked passed the skulls.

Another pile of cow skulls

Homes in the garbage dump

A little girl stomps the garbage into a bag full of things she just scavenged.
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