On a good day a picker can find trash worth 30,000 kyat (S$19), but more often the take-home pay is around S$4.
YANGON — Ms Ma Yu launches her makeshift polystyrene boat into a Yangon creek for another day of trawling the filthy waters for plastic and tin cans with her team of"river cleaners".
"There was no job for me on the land and I'm responsible for my children and my husband's healthcare," the 36-year-old Ma Yu told AFP, her cheeks and forehead daubed with the sandalwood"thanakha" paste popularly used in Myanmar to ward off the blazing sun. Ms Ma Ngal, 41, came to the river after losing her job selling vegetables and fish at a Yangon stall, with her carpenter husband also unable to find regular work."But they found out, and I had to explain to them that I'm doing this for my family."On a good day a picker can find trash worth 30,000 kyat , but more often the take-home pay is around $3.
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