Recycling worker, Porto Alegre

Date

2010

Description

Creator of the image: Paul James
Date of the image creation: 2010
Medium of the image: Photograph
Person depicted: Recycling worker, Porto Alegre

The woman in this photograph was a member of the Chocolatão project. Once a garbage picker walking the streets of Porto Alegre to find rubbish for selling to a recycling dealer, she now works for a new city-enterprise where the rubbish is brought to a recycling depot built near her new home. Across the period of 2005 till 2011, the Chocolatão project involved the resettlement of all the residents of the inner-city Vila Chocolatão slum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to a new suburb where the depot was built. This collaborative project was successful in rehousing a whole community of slum dwellers, but more than that the project restructured how the city deals with slums.

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