COMMISSIONS: Medellin: Fragile Future for the Miracle City: 13_20150302medellin0950

Marta Chica Lopez, 27, points to a dead chick, near the chicken coop, to her son, Juan Esteban, 6, left, and daughter Luciana, 2, center, and nephew, right, at their home in the neighbourhood of Moravia, a former garbage dump. Marta grew up in this two-story house that her grandfather built 24 years ago, and made of a patchwork of wood scraps. Since 2012, the city of Medellin began an innovative project in Moravia to transform the city’s main garbage dump into a sustainable garden where 50 thousands residents lived. However to implement the project, the city relocated about 14,000 families. Some families moved into high-rise public housing in the community, but others were moved to a remote area of the city, about an hour from their jobs and former neighbourhood. Marta's family fought several rounds of evictions to stay in the neighbourhood.

 

Marta Chica Lopez, 27, points to a dead chick, near the chicken coop, to her son, Juan Esteban, 6, left, and daughter Luciana, 2, center, and nephew, right, at their home in the neighbourhood of Moravia, a former garbage dump. Marta grew up in this two-story house that her grandfather built 24 years ago, and made of a patchwork of wood scraps. Since 2012, the city of Medellin began an innovative project in Moravia to transform the city’s main garbage dump into a sustainable garden where 50 thousands residents lived. However to implement the project, the city relocated about 14,000 families. Some families moved into high-rise public housing in the community, but others were moved to a remote area of the city, about an hour from their jobs and former neighbourhood. Marta's family fought several rounds of evictions to stay in the neighbourhood.