Formal education is a luxury in the dump. Because each day presents the challenge of mere survival, the scavengers don´t have the opportunity to care about much else. Consequently, the majority has neither dreams nor plans of any kind outside of finding the meal of the day.
The sad result of this lifestyle is the steady formation of three deeply embedded and widespread lies: "I can´t do it", "I don´t know anything" and "I´m trash".
The outcome of this form of poverty is:
- Undervalue, low self esteem and lack of initiative
- Illiteracy and technical illiteracy
- Material poverty
- Cycles of poverty among generations
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Watch the following video to better understand this poverty: