Muhammad Babul Hossain, one of the slum's three compost collectors, didn't have a job before the barrel program began, but now he's one of the slum's high-income earners at 4,000 taka ($58) per month.
We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
Similar to the way someone in Mumbai or Nairobi might use the word " slum, " it's to locate our people and to indict the systems of neglect that created these conditions.
From tomorrow, Pope Francis embarks on an active schedule: visiting Catholic monuments, a favela and hospitals before a huge Woodstock-style open-air gathering on Sunday.
For the past six years, it's provided food, clothing, hair and make-up services on skid row, an area of Los Angeles, California that has one of America's highest concentrations of homeless people.
You lived in, you know, the projects, they put you in this experiment and they want you to survive and I suffered a lot of damage from the hands of, you know, men.