This is a series of interviews of Canadian childrens' advocates working in Nicaragua, Bolivia and India. Some are very compelling: an economist describes the widespread practice of waste-picking in the slums of Bangalore, India. Kids sort through huge, overflowing concrete trash bins which line city streets and sell recyclable material to neighborhood waste buyers to supplement family income. The piece doesn't seem to stand alone but offers a window into child homelessness, poverty and hunger that would work well as a set-up piece for a talk show.
Review of Kids on the Street
Mary McGrath
Posted on January 27, 2004 at 09:14 AM
This is a series of interviews of Canadian childrens' advocates working in Nicaragua, Bolivia and India. Some are very compelling: an economist describes the widespread practice of waste-picking in the slums of Bangalore, India. Kids sort through huge, overflowing concrete trash bins which line city streets and sell recyclable material to neighborhood waste buyers to supplement family income. The piece doesn't seem to stand alone but offers a window into child homelessness, poverty and hunger that would work well as a set-up piece for a talk show.