‘The rubbish covers the streets like a blanket, after talking to a local resident who had lived there for 31 years I had more of a insight to their way of life. He complained to me about the rent being increased yet there was no government or help from the sheikh to improve their sanitation…their drainage…the rubbish on the streets. I walked into a clearing in the centre of Ras Al Khaimah which had houses along the periphery, yet in the centre of this clearing was a rubbish mound. He told me how the children don’t have a local school to go to, and that if you have a car you can drive the children to a public school further out. The children suffer from health problems from playing in the rubbish, because there is nowhere for them to play. But how do you draw attention to this, when most of these children do not even legally exist.’
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