The Landfill Harmonic "A violin is worth more than a house here"

The Landfill Harmonic is really an inspirational and phenomenal concept that has been made into a documentary. I just found out about this the  other day and had to share. Most of the background information is in the film but essentially a young group of people in Cateura, Paraguay are creating amazing instruments out of trash and playing them beautifully. They call themselves "Los Reciclados", or The Recycled Orchestra.

Unicef reports in 2010 that the Cateura Dump is the central dumping site of over 1,500 tons of solid waste each day. Approximately 2,500 families live surrounding the dump and make money by stripping the site for  materials they can sell to the recycling industry.
This region is poverty stricken, driving young children into early labor, and many are illiterate and living in very unsanitary conditions.

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/paraguay_56594.html

I think its absolutely incredible that with so little resources, these people have managed to make something beautiful in their lives out of trash, literally.

Watch a youtube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJxxdQox7n0

Follow the project on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie?fref=ts

"A violin is worth more than a house here"- Favio Chavez, Orchestra Founder and Director