Over 2000 people call the Stung Meanchey dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia home.

They sift through garbage to find anything of value to sell as a means of survival.


A mother carries her pre-teen daughter who can't walk due to diseased feet.

The luxury of health care isn't an option.

Flies land on dirty cardboard which a dump resident bundles to sell . She makes 75 cents for a days work.nng

A young girl carries a naked baby through the dump.

Many children are taken or sold into the active child sex trade in Phnom Penh.

A group of scavengers rush to pick through a fresh load of trash.

Children are often killed when they fall under the dump truck wheels as the crowd pushes forward.

Children work ten hours a day, seven days a week picking through maggots and rotten food.

They will eat the food they find if it's only partially rotten.

A girl covers her head to block the smoke coming from trash fires.

Boys walk the dump, looking for unexplored piles of refuge. Of the 2000 people who live at the dump, 600 are children.

AA teenager pauses in the heat as high humidity and the foul stench of garbage fill the air.

ddfPeople living in the dump make shelter from found materials to protect from the almost daily rains.

AA mission pastor prays with a dump resident seeking relief from her pain.