People here aren't that concerned with the current technology trends. If it hasn't disintegrated its still useful. This scavenger is talking on a cell phone he's owned for the last ten years. In the background are apartments of the wealthy. In the far background are the bird cages, mixed wealthy, middle class and low income apartment buildings. A part of the complex was built to relieve overcrowding in the slum neighborhoods.
In the landfills and public dumps of Lunaku humanitarian organizations hand out tall rubber rain boots to prevent the scavengers from getting infections from sharp objects in the trash heaps. Trashpicking was bare necessity until the government started handing out food stamps in the 1990's. Even now, however, the jobless still do it to avoid boredom and for extra income.