Index World Press Photo
February 2008 | Edition Nine     




From sunrise to sunset, lorries bring waste to the garbage site outside the capital, Nicaragua. Twelve-year old Maria Silvia lives on the heap of rubbish in a shed of tin plates together with mum, dad and five brothers and sisters. Every morning at dawn she is woken up to go to work. Managua 2003.
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