Garbage Man's Home 1

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Almost everything you see in the photo is scavenged from the dump. Underneath the floor coverings is dirt. It will be difficult to stay dry inside when the monsoon rains come. The ground will become so saturated that water will come up through the floor covering. The wind will blow rain in through the walls. Even in our tile floored house, there were many mornings during the rainy season when I put my feet on the floor and found, to my surprise, that I was up to my ankles in water. Flooding is a major problem in many sections of Jakarta. I remember spending a large part of one day sitting on the back of a teak wood pew with my feet on the seat of the pew and the water lapping around my feet. This was the highest floor in our house. When I went back to the bedroom, water was up to my chest. Thankfully we had lost our electrical power that day. If this happens in one of the finest neighborhoods of the city, what happens to the poorest of the poor in the least desirable neighborhoods?

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