A disabled man walks around the huge slum known as “El Fangitto”

A disabled man walking around El Fangitto, “The Mud”, on crutches. As you can see in other pictures, much of El Fangitto was only accessible by walking on elevated planks, which must have made this man’s life extremely difficult.
 

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