Field Coverage

Waste Collects on the Shores of Timor-Leste

4 December 2008

According to the findings of a preliminary report of the World Bank on poverty, the poverty line is at 0.88 cents a day whilst 49.9% people live below poverty line in Timor-Leste.
Plastic bottles and garbage waste from a nearby village wash on the shores of a river and then spill into the sea.

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