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Letter from Tuesday April 6th 2010 Guardian Weekly reader Maggie Barclay describes what life is like for the hundreds of families who live at La Chureca – a landfill site by the side of Lake Nicaragua.

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PROYECTO “APADRINAMIENTO A LAS NIÑAS, NIÑOS Y ADOLESCENTES ATENDIDOS POR LA ASOCIACIÓN QUINCHO BARRILETE”

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The most noticeable thing about La Chureca on this visit is that the Spanish project has finally started and was much in evidence from sign boards that have been planted here and there, building work, presumably of the recycling plant that will provide people with employment, and most impressive of all, huge earthmoving equipment ponderously slicing away at the mountains of rubbish and taking it elsewhere.

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