More Photo Essays: 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.](http://cdn.lightgalleries.net/4bd5ebfbaf24d/images/13_20150302medellin0950-1.jpg)
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.
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