Volunteer with children being rehabilitated from a local dump in the Philippines and have the opportunity to participate in a rewarding outreach project and help contribute to making long-term actions and remove more children from working at the Tacloban City dumpsite.

Scavenging for plastics and other recyclable items at the city dump is a grim reality of life for many children in the community. Most of these children are malnourished. A few attend school off and on, while the rest do not attend school at all. The children, some as young as five, work at the city dump to supplement their parents' meager earnings. On a good day, a child typically earns about 75 cents, enough perhaps to enable the family to have a second meal that day. 

The work is hard and dangerous, and the stench of decaying material permeates the area. Still, the children play gleefully on the mounds of compacted garbage while awaiting the arrival of the next dump truck. Like other children in the Philippines, they are playful. This is the only life they know. But should the children remain at the dump, they face a grim future.

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