These boys struggles to keep thier head above water, swimming in a river thick with the reams of rubbish as they collects recyclable material from floating garbage in a polluted river at Navotas city, north of Manila.


These children are just a handful of the thousands of young Filipinos paradoxically risking their lives in the heavily polluted water, in order to survive.
Families living in the nearby slums are some of the poorest in the world, with both adults and children reduced to scavenging through waste for the quantities of recyclable materials needed to make a living.
Many still live in squalor and spend their days sifting through polluted water to find anything they can sell to 24-hour ‘junk shops’ that buy plastic, metal, paper and glass by the kilo, which are sold to massive recycling plants in southern China.
The youngsters are at risk of diseases such as respiratory infections, pneumonia, diarrhoea and tuberculosis from wading through the dirty waters or working on one of the massive neighbouring rubbish dumps.
Unicef says the junk shops take all the profit and none of the risk, typically turning over millions of pesos a year, while paying the dump workers around 50 pesos (£2) a day.
And the charity warned the huge risks they are taking are often for even less gains with less demand than ever for the scrap materials they are desperately collecting.

See more photos here: http://www.mbnewsline.com/2015/07/see-these-shocking-pictures-of-filipino.html

This girl o!

So sad!

God am using this medium to say Thank you for yesterday, Thank you for today and Thank you for the unknown tomorrow.

Am alive with a roof over my head.

#Thank you.

GOD help us all

Did you say River State ?

Governor Amaechi should see this..

Demmzy15:
This girl o!

The man above you ?

God punish poverty

sugarvallly:
God punish poverty

Lol! You really get beef with poverty.

400billionman:
Did you say River State ?
Governor Amaechi should see this..

Yea d Rivers state in Filipino
beside Amaechi is Governor in which state

Dis kids are genius

m sure de constructed d boat themselves

Lord will see us true

sugarvallly:
God punish poverty

Ouch, Poverty is well and alive, and it ain't leaving us anytime soon

And God keeps watching

sugarvallly:
God punish poverty

I love hanging out with beautiful independent women... what do you say??

This is one reason I work. I don't want my kids to EVER experience such. GOD bless my hustle and bless my girlfriend Princess.

Hmmmmmm