Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa Kwaku Michael is a 7-year-old scavenger and urban miner who spends his days cannibalizing from e-waste on the margins of Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Child Poverty Images […]
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Mother Teresa Kwaku Michael is a 7-year-old scavenger and urban miner who spends his days cannibalizing from e-waste on the margins of Agbogbloshie, Ghana. Child Poverty Images […]
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Kwaku Michael is a 7-year-old scavenger and urban miner who spends his days cannibalizing from e-waste on the margins of Agbogbloshie, Ghana.
Child Poverty Images
Michael sometimes uses his hands and stones to break apart vintage televisions that are based on a cathode-ray tube for the iron materials inside, exposing himself to dangerous levels of lead.
Exposure to lead is associated with neurocognitive deficits in children, including intellectual impairment, shortened attention span, and even reproductive problems later in life.
Agbogbloshie is renowned for its heavy metals pollution levels. Michael is also exposed to toxic materials such as mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel, and cadmium from the informal recycling of e-waste around the area.
Michael is exposed to heavy metals such as mercury, lead, arsenic, cadmium, and chromium.
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life nor joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems;John clare, i am Cities in the global south are urbanizing rapidly. This comes with a dark side — urban poverty. What are the implications […]
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