This is the story of the girl who turned trash into treasure.

This is the story of the girl.

This is the story of the girl who turned trash into treasure, Vina Sahajwala, read by the host of Behind the News, population 22 million.

Known for bustling bazaars, magnificent museums, fascinating festivals, cracking curries, and a lotter, lotter littier.

That's right, Mumbai produces about 10,000 metric tons of rubbish every single day.

That's equivalent to 95 Blue Wales,

900 cruise ship anchors, 1,500 t-Rex dinosaurs, 2,500 hippos, 22,000 grand pianos, or 250,000

toilets. And that's where this story begins.

No, not in the toilet.

Right in the middle of a massive mound of Mumbai's grossest garbage.

Pooey! buy's grossest garbage. Poohy!

But wait, the hero in this story doesn't think garbage is gross.

She loves Lisha.

She relishes rubbish. She worships waste. Her name is Vina Sajuala.

Vina! Vina! Wiener, where are you?

Vena was always late home from school.

She was usually dilly-dallying and dawdling through slums. Those are overcrowded areas

filled with the poorest people living in run-down shacks surrounded by seas of pollution. But Vina didn't look at slums that way. She saw

them as homes of innovators and entrepreneurs, people trying to make something of nothing, people who found treasure in trash.

She'd linger watching families scavenge for bottles and other bibs and bobs that could be sold for Pacey or rupee

Indian money. She joined them gathering her own odds and ends from dumping grounds.

Vina people would say why can't you collect stamps like a normal kid?

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