September 30, 2016

Klerksdorp Landfill, South Africa, July 2016, where the mayor, Pinkie Moloi spearheaded a project to build a recycling plant below the landfill and integrate the resident waste collectors so they could also benefit. (Celestine Ngulube, via Unsplash.com and used under Creative Commons zero)

"We pray your healing upon this sad and sick place. We pray wisdom and courage and transparency for all those who must work together to prevent the great harms that this place portend."

- from the prayer of the sisters who demonstrate with JustMomsStL about the landfill situation in Bridgeton, Missouri, quoted from Tending the cry of our mother and reported on in Radioactive dumping grounds are a concern for US sisters

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