Dieu-Nalio Chery

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Haiti Surviving At The Dump

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In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, tr...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, trash scavengers run through the smoke of burning trash and dust kicked up by a dump truck arriving to unload at the Truitier landfill in Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. About 60 percent of the country's population of nearly 10.5 million people struggle to live on about $2 a day, while a January report by the U.S. Agency for International Development said about half the country is undernourished. (Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, sc...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 28, 2018 photo, scavengers climb on a trash truck arriving to unload at the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here in Cite Soleil, poisonous waste decomposes into the soil, seeping into nearby water sources and exacerbating dismal sanitary conditions. (Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, Ch...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, Changlair Aristide 36, a ragpicker, front, looks on while looking for items in the dump trash of Truitier, in Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. ( Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, Changlair Aristide, a 36-year-old trash scavenger, uses sandpaper to smoothen the metal rod he uses to pick through the rubble at the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide has been sorting through waste since 1994 and originally saw the work as a way to get rich in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Now he says it's "hell on earth." ( Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, a ...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, a resident feeds his pigs on the edge of the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents breed pigs which can rummage the landfill for food. (Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 27, 2018 photo, Ch...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 27, 2018 photo, Changlair Aristide walks across the Truitier landfill wearing his soccer uniform after a day of scavenging for useful items to use or sell, on his way to hang out with friends in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. From his earnings at the dump site, Aristide bought two pigs and built a house made of corrugated steel just beyond the landfill's edge, where he lives with his wife and three of his kids. (Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 25, 2018 photo, Ch...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 25, 2018 photo, Changlair Aristide kisses his wife Violene Mareus as their daughter Viergeline looks on outside their home next to the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide and Mareus have three children, whom Mareus cares for at home, where she sells cigarettes and alcohol to neighbors. (Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, tr...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, trash scavengers work with head lamps as they look for useful items to use or sell at the Truitier landfill, where trash burns behind in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Thousands of people rummage through the waste for hours, often working into the night to fill a container with materials they can sell nearby. ( Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, Gu...Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

In this Aug. 30, 2018 photo, Guerdy Joseph, a 24-year-old trash scavenger, rests in his protective clothing, including a Christmas costume hat that he found in the trash, at the end of his work day at the Truitier landfill in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Joseph has six children, and has been scavenging the dump for the past 10 years. ( Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) Port-au-Prince HTI

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