April 4, 2010
Image of the Day: Dandora Garbage Dump, Kenya
A woman sorts through a heap of garbage at the Dandora dumping site among other people, cattle, pigs and storks, in Nairobi on December 10, 2009. The dumping site was declared full and a health hazard for the neighboring population in 2001 but chemical, hospital, industrial, agricultural and domestic waste are still dumped here and left unprocessed. Local communities and their partners started a campaign called “Stop Dumping Death On Us. We have the Right to Live Too”, aimed at opening a dialogue with the institutional actors who can solve this problem. (SIMON MAINA / AFP / Getty Images)