More than alf the child´s population Lives Beneath the Poverty line and most of this child´s work in the street´s.
The "cartoneros" collect everything that can be sold at streets: paper, cans, glass and plastic bottles, etc.
The white train takes them back to their miserable dwellings in the suburbs after a long and tiring day of collecting trash.
The Argentinean government distributes some 150 pesos (U$S 40.-) to the heads of each family every month. But this is of course never enough: one must beg, steal, and find food and other valuables in the garbage.
Every nights, the "cartoneros" (cardboard and paper collectors) cross the city searching papers and cardboards.
The rain make the load to much heavy.
Every nights, the "cartoneros" (cardboard and paper collectors) cross the city searching papers and cardboards.
The rain make the load to much heavy.
