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L8 Music from the Trash Mountain, a garbage picker(Nicolas Gomez) - Coggle…
L8 Music from the Trash Mountain
Cateura
a poor town in Paraguay
the country's largest landfill site
people live by picking through the trash for things to sell
poverty and lack of education
young people get involved in drugs and crime
visitors call there a "hell on earth"
Favio Chavez identified it just a place in need of hope
Chavez
an ecological technician
help people sort trash in new ways
a music lover
teach children music
a violin was worth more than a house in that area
they can't afford expensive musical intruments
the answer lay in the trash itself
the eager children
search scrap mental and other garbage
sexophones
old water pipes
forks
knives
spoons
coins
cellos
oil cans
drums
old X-ray photos
trash cans
turned junk into treasured instruments
the world opened up to the young musician
they were invited to perform in Brazil
touring the world
became a documentary film called
Landfill Harmonic
in 2015
harsh reality of life
a movie soundtrack played by the orchestra
the film and the story
inspire similar actions in other poor places
environmental pollution is a major concern
one person's trash is another's treasure
a garbage picker(Nicolas Gomez)
found something that looked like a volin
brought it to Chavez
began to make musical instruments
Gomez and Chavez came up with the wild idea
establish a children's orchestra
became known as the Recycled Orchestra