Professionals as scavengers become citizens of most of the North Aceh district and Lhokseumawe city, for decades residents earn a living from the search for used goods in the Final Disposal Site of Alue Lim Village, Lhokseumawe, Aceh, daily can pocket Rp 50,000 from the results of scavenging used goods .
Sometimes, their money can only be brought home Rp. 10,000 Terms and Conditions, Need to Report Disease Outbreaks, which makes activity in the city quiet, so that used goods that enter the place of expenditure is also small.
Yes, the Corona Disaster virus not only inhibits their activities but also inhibits expenses for the lives of many scavengers who are able to cope with the living needs of their children.
Decades of life as scavengers, of course easier for them, younger than those who work elsewhere for families, and prefer to take education.
Sadly, sometimes with an income of only Rp. 10,000, they claimed they had to be smart to find ways for children to eat, enjoy having to work extra hours at night while waiting for the garbage truck to enter the landfill.
Not only adults who work as scavengers, often also seen children who do not work, right in the middle of the garbage helps their parents who collect used goods that are suitable for sale.
While resting, a middle-aged woman, just call Salamah to talk about her daily life. He said, in a day if he was lucky he could get Rp 100,000. But, if not he only gets Rp 50,000.
The money must be enough to live together, long time left behind, "It's been lonely trucks coming in, spending the kids need money, spending now, living expenses, increased, but we did not increase," said the woman
With the outbreak of the spread of Covid-19, Salamah claimed that she was not afraid if she was prosecuted for being in a public area without wearing a mask or face covering.
He and the children must also try after trying to find used items.
Salamah always hopes that there are benefactors who distribute aid consisting of anything interesting and children can ask for food.
This post has been manually selected and voted by Indiaunited community. If you are still not in the Indiaunited discord, you can join the Discord Server.
Do you know that you can earn a passive income by delegating to @indiaunited. We share 80 % of the curation rewards with the delegators.
Here are some handy links for delegations: 100HP, 250HP, 500HP, 1000HP.
Read our latest announcement post to get more information.
Please contribute to the community by upvoting this comment and posts made by @indiaunited.