7 Jan 2013
MAE SOT,
Thailand—Near this tidy town in north Thailand, children gather
on towering
mounds of garbage at a dump—sorting through plastic, glass
and garments as
flies buzz around their knees. It’s nearly 3 am and the children,
undocumented
migrant workers from neighboring Burma, have been working
for about 13 hours to
help their families collect trash, which they will sell for
about 4 baht (12
cents) per kilogram to a nearby factory. They live here at the dump,
and in a
full day’s work they’ll be lucky to earn about 90 cents.
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