One night in December 2010, hundreds of Roma from Cluj-Napoca, in western Romania, were evicted from the neighborhood where they had lived for decades.
The community then settled a few kilometers further, in the shantytown of the Pata-Rât landfill where families tried to meet their needs by recycling waste.
Today, 2,000 people, the majority of whom are children, live in Pata-Rât, at the foot of a mountain of toxic rubbish.
Alex Fechete lived there for seven years.
Today, he fights for the youngest to have access to education and leisure.
And that they can envisage a better future, far from the harmfulness of the landfill.
We followed him for a day in this camp where journalists very rarely have access.
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