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Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana. 24 October 2018. 

Nathaniale, 18 from Bolgatanga, has now spent eight years in the scrap yard. His job is to burn appliances and cables in order to extract raw materials like copper, aluminum and iron and then resell them. 

Here he is resting inside a makeshift shelter made by internal parts of old refrigerators. 

From the series "Burning Dreams". © Carolina Rapezzi

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Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana 9 November 2018. Rashida is a young girl originally from the North of Ghana, she sells water in the scrap yard of Agbogbloshie. Along with other girls living in the area, she carries water bags into a wheelbarrow and sell them for 1 Ghanaian Cedi (the equivalent of £0,15) to workers who need to extinguish the fire and cool down the copper extracted from burning cables, wires and other appliances. From the series “Burning Dreams”.

© Carolina Rapezzi

Karim, 2 years old, in the scrap yard with a worker preparing marijuana doses to sell for the day. Earnings from the burning activity are uncertain and meagre. Selling marijuana has become a quick way to round off daily incomes, in addition to be also consumed by workers to ease the heat while burning cables. From the series “Burning Dreams”. 

Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana. 24 October 2018. Nathaniale, 18 from Bolgatanga, has now spent eight years in the scrap yard. His job is to burn appliances and cables in order to extract raw materials like copper, aluminum and iron and then resell them. Here he is resting inside a makeshift shelter made by internal parts of old refrigerators. From the series "Burning Dreams"

[saddayfordemocracy]

Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana 9 November 2018. 

Rashida is a young girl originally from the North of Ghana, she sells water in the scrap yard of Agbogbloshie. 

Along with other girls living in the area, she carries water bags into a wheelbarrow and sell them for 1 Ghanaian Cedi (the equivalent of £0,15) to workers who need to extinguish the fire and cool down the copper extracted from burning cables, wires and other appliances. 

From the series “Burning Dreams”. © Carolina Rapezzi