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Images of Empowerment

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

Photo Credit

Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Filename

WIEGO_JHB_6064_NO_RELEASE_NEEDED-scaled.jpg