CHAPTER FOUR
The Big Picture
SUGAR AND SPICE
MARIA LUZ OCHONDRA lives on one of the world’s largest garbage dumps, a place incongruously called the Promised Land, just outside Manila in the Philippines.1 No one knows exactly how many people live on and around the Promised Land, but at least a couple thousand desperately poor adults and children spend their days picking through the garbage looking for anything useful. Father Joel Bernardo, a Catholic priest who works with the residents, notes that they are the “leftovers” of the world, the poorest of the poor. Another resident, Paz Calopez, describes conditions in the Promised Land this way: “There’s ...
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