1. Posted on Tuesday 15 April 2008 - 10:24

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   Text and photo's by Lameck Nyagudi, boy wears football shirt of Dutch player Ruud van Nistelrooy

   [Photo series] A boy wearing a shirt of his hero Ruud van Nistelrooy at Nairobi's biggest dump site in Dandora, a slum area. Hundreds of people make a living here, between animal bones and hospital waste they find their way. There is even time to play football. Photo's by ex-Dandora resident Lameck Nyagudi.

   

   This is the Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi. It is the main dumping site for most of the solid waste, generated by the 4.5 million people living in the Kenyan capital.
   Dumping at the site is unrestricted. Industrial, agricultural, domestic and medical wastes - including used syringes - are strewn all over the site.
   
   Every day, scores of people, including children, from the nearby slums and low-income residential areas use the dump to find food, recyclables and other valuables they can sell as a source of income. As they pick over the garbage, they are inhaling the noxious fumes from routine waste burning and methane fires. See more pictures by Lameck  Nyagudi in his weblog

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1. Posted on Friday 02 May 2008 16:15

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   opash2k

   

   Opali Otiato
   10 berichten
   Lid sinds March 2008
   Nairobi

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   Liked the photos. I once passed by the place but the guts to walk into the murk deserted me. Its not just the place that is feared but the people who scavenge there as well. Beautiful.

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2. Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2008 11:45

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   anneliekehulzebosch

   

   Annelieke
   2 berichten
   Lid sinds May 2008
   Utrecht

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   Everybody should see this photos and do something about it.

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3. Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2008 12:02

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   John M

   

   John Mahoro
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   Lid sinds July 2007

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   What should people do? Look at this other worrying story: http://africanews.com/site/list_messages/18808

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   Et in terra pax hominubus...

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4. Posted on Thursday 25 September 2008 11:35

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   Junique

   

   Monicah Achieng
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   Lid sinds September 2008
   Nairobi

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   Looks real! It's a forgotten world. But the residents know how to go about it. Income sorce u say.
   Ave never visited the dump site, but I regularly hear the horrifics about it.
   A good photo for the look out. Keep up.

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   Monique

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5. Posted on Monday 15 December 2008 15:48

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   kodero

   

   Kennedy Odero
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   Lid sinds December 2008

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   Wat do you want us to do about it....its there and even bigger than the picture can tell..........

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6. Posted on Monday 09 January 2012 02:23

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   RichardGreaves

   

   Richard Greaves
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   Sydney

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   This scene reminds me of a scene in the movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Young boys scavenging what they can find in a landfill, braving the hot sun and other unspeakable dangers. If we deny these children access to these sites for their own good, where else can they turn to forge a living for themselves, when no outside help is given at all?

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   Richard Greaves

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7. Posted on Tuesday 10 April 2012 05:32

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   jack88

   

   
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   I am not sure what to think about this dump site at all. There is so many changes that need to be made here. I hope to see them work on this dump site. actos and bladder cancer

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8. Posted on Friday 20 April 2012 09:13

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   keerthi

   

   
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9. Posted on Tuesday 01 May 2012 03:28

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   trinitygbn26

   

   
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