My New Year resolution as a journalist is to try to focus
more on solutions rather than on showing problems, and write stories that
leave people with hope and the will to do something rather than feeling helpless.
Here is a perfect example: a beautiful story about people
turning trash into music. The
people of Cateura, Paraguay, make their living scavenging through a huge
landfill on top of which their slum was built. One day, one of them found a
discarded violin shell. It gave them the idea of building recycled musical
instruments out of rusting oil cans, pieces of wood and metal, old tools and
other trash. They soon managed to
put together a whole orchestra made out of recycled instruments (it sounds
amazingly good!) and it has transformed their lives.
“The world sends us garbage. We send
back music,” says Favio Chavez, the orchestra’s director.
Beautiful, isn’t it?
Quite. I love seeing how the rest of the world innovates as others are caught up in the consumerist world.
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