The beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, one of our national treasures. The National Park straddles North Carolina and Tennessee. On September 2, 1940, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the park for "The permanent enjoyment of the people".
The park is visited by thousands each year. they hike, swim, bike and fish. There are evening campfire programs and guided tours. There is even a program where kids between 5 and 12 can become junior Park Rangers.
Dumaguete has it's own "Smokey Mountain", but, as you can see below, it is quite different. Their mountain is a dump where garbage is burned.
Photo: courtesy of Keiko Shimizu(c)"all copy rights reserved"- (thanks Keiko)
Many cities around the world have dumps similar to this, but this mountain has special visitors: children. They come to find discarded items that might be worth selling.
LCP* staffers look for these children. They offer them something better than the scavenger life.
I will soon be meeting the amazing staff at LCP.
*Little Children of the Philippines
