Rashida

Rashida is part of a project called 'Burning Dreams' about the juvenile condition in the scarp yard of Agbogbloshie, where young boys and girls have migrated from the north of Ghana to Accra, seeking a better future. Lack of appropriate education, money and unfortunate family circumstances or simply the urgency of needing a quick income, have brought these young men and women to work in the Agbogbloshie scrap yard, also known for being one of the biggest electronic waste dumps in the world. Broken computers and appliances are burnt in order to extract raw materials like copper, iron and aluminium, but health and safety regulations, as well as healthcare, are currently nonexistent. Workers and children are constantly exposed to hazardous jobs and, most of all, to poisonous fumes and toxic emissions.