The daily income generated by scavenging in the dump is on average less than $2.00, just enough for one meal, and a far cry from what is needed for access to basic human services.  At this rate, progress and growth are impossible and the scavengers never make it out of the "just living to make it through each day" reality.  Even if they did make enough to save a little, access to econimical resources is basically a closed door for the scavengers because of lack of records and references.

The outcome of this form of poverty is:

• People and families who don´t have enough to pay for a single meal
• Bad prioritization of their basic needs
• Debt and bad administration of their money
• Physical illness, child labor and  theft

In the big picture, economic poverty is just the beginning, the tip of the iceberg; the other seven forms of poverty are the main problem, with longer- range consequences and harder solutions to come by.

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Watch the following video to better understand this poverty: