Description
The women waste pickers who belong to the Majakathatha Cooperative arrive at the landfill before 7 a.m. and spend more than 10 hours a dayin all weatherssorting through waste in search of valuable recyclables to sell to a middleman. By organizing, they hope to regulate and improve the prices they receive. FULLY RELEASED
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Learn more
Location
Sasolburg, Free State Province, South Africa
Date Captured
August 21, 2015
Photo Credit
Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment
Filename
WIEGO_JHB_6064_NO_RELEASE_NEEDED-scaled.jpg