Statistics are difficult to find… no one has really counted the people that live and scavenge in the garbage dumps of the world’s poorest countries. They’re the people that society has forgotten. There are hundreds of thousands of them… spending their days sifting through the trash, looking for something to eat, to sell, to make their meager lives a bit more “comfortable”.

Extreme Response began in the trash dump in Quito, Ecuador. In June of 1997 the Extreme Response founders began working with the 300+ people that lived and worked right there in the trash. Extreme Response is now also involved in helping others change the lives of those living in other dump communities around the world through education, health care and life-skills training.