The Story of the kids of Suwung
LIVING AT THE FOOT OF A GIANT TRASH MOUNTAIN
On the east coast of Bali, away from the fancy tourist beach clubs, lies one of Indonesia’s biggest dump sites: TPA Suwung.
On the 32 hectare-long, 27-meter-tall mountain, 1,000 tons of trash get dumped every day. A community of 400 families live there and survive by salvaging everything valuable from the waste, and most especially plastic.
Kesia & her friends
ordinary kids in a not so ordinary world
Kesia is 8 years old, she is brought up by her grandparents in a house of tin she shares with her 10 siblings, who are all trash pickers.
She is a very happy and quirky little girl who likes to go to school, to draw and to dance, she wants to become a teacher one day. She doesn’t see her parents much and has very strong bonds with her friends with whom she likes to play a lot.
A day in Kesia & her friends' life:
Part of a Documentary
2 years in the making
We have been filming since 2021 in some of Bali most remote areas, following some extraordinary people who dedicated their lives to saving our planet and helping others.
A clear Mission
help the kids & bring awareness
Create a food program so they can be appropriately fed (out of the food aid already in place, most of them only eat rice and sometimes not everyday).
Improve their education so they can avoid having to climb the trash mountain and pick garbage one day.
Bring awareness to Bali’s poverty and waste pollution problems as well as the incredible social and environmental impact organizations that have dedicated their lives to making a difference.
A moving Exhibition
in real life venues & in the metaverse
Plastic Angels is an artistic collaboration between outstanding Indonesian and international artists to produce artworks in a variety of media (video, photo, stencil, painting, sculpture, etc.) using plastic collected straight from Suwung’s trash mountain.
Tens of thousands of people will be exposed to the art as it is transported around, displayed at some of Bali’s largest venues, and painted on walls all across the island. It will be converted into Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs), which will be displayed and made available for purchase in our interactive Metaverse gallery.
=> Visit the Metaverse Gallery here
Everything will be released through a large media & Internet campaign: Local and International TV, Internet Channels, Social media groups, Influencers & Press.
