Most witnesses to the atrocities in city slums, especially public landfills, would agree that no human deserves to live amidst the filth of others. In the United States, this concept is completely foreign because waste deposits are privatized. While First World countries have the ghetto, the inner city, and rural poverty, it cannot fully empathize with an overwhelming acreage filled with garbage and teeming with people. Those of us who live "in a world of unprecedented opulence" cannot fathom such a hopeless lifestyle (Sen). No human should be so undignified that he or she feels condemned to rummage through garbage for the rest of his or her life. While the privatization of waste dumps would eradicate the option of living in such a slum, it would simply tear people from their community and place them on the streets, starving and humiliated; the solution must come from within. Teaching literacy has been the most popularly proposed remedy.
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United StatesWhile literacy is eventually necessary for a citizen's full participation in society and for the appeal of his or her human rights, a man is alone if he has no skill, no place in the world. The most beneficial long-term movement for empowering the people in the developing world must come from enforcing the right to education based on schooling for literacy and vocational training through relationships built with the people themselves.
Life in the DumpWords cannot explain, pictures do not suffice, only a personal experience can begin to shed light on the situation at hand in the slums, the trash dumps, of the world. Jonathan R. Rouse describes the waste landsite of Karachi, Pakistan called "Jam Chakro:""The waste work undertaken at Jam Chakro is particularly demeaning, unpleasant and dangerous. The assumption that people are only driven to such work by extreme poverty...