Compassion for the Kabaris: Delhi’s Wastepickers at the heart of a bold new green initiative

William Road Gallery, 7-9 William Road, London
Compassion for the Kabaris: Delhi’s Wastepickers at the heart of a bold new green initiative image
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This event ended on Friday 30th of September 2011
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William Road Gallery, 7-9 William Road, London

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The eminent Indian photo-journalist Raghu Rai's exhibition, Compassion for the Kabaris, is now open at The William Road Gallery, with a selection of nineteen works vividly portraying the lives of the waste-pickers who comb through the tons of waste dumped on Delhi’s biggest landfill site, Ghazipur, recycling as they go.

The exhibition, commissioned and hosted by award-winning architectural practice John McAslan + Partners, draws attention to the work of the Chintan (Environmental Research and Action Group) at Ghazipur. Chintan places waste-pickers – the Kabaris – at the heart of a new national initiative to improve the lives of Kabari families, whilst highlighting the urgent need for better organised and more humane waste recycling. The initiative aims to ultimately stop children becoming Kabaris - an estimated 179 of the 690 children living in the Ghazipur landfill community in 2011 worked as Kabaris, whilst only 221 attended school.

Rai's photographs sit within the gallery space established by John McAslan + Partners, an architectural practice known for its work within neglected communities around the world; from the restoration of the Iron Market in Haiti, to a modular school design for rural Malawi.

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