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Digging through stinking heaps of garbage in one rubbish bin after another, a small boy stops occasionally to pluck out a prize - bunches of old newspapers or cardboard.
"I'll be able to sell them for a few Hong Kong dollars (20-30 U.S. cents ... If I don't do this, how can we have enough money for milk powder for my brother and sister?" Chun is picking through garbage dumps in Hong Kong, one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Years of economic stagnation have widened Hong Kong's rich-poor gap and unemployment levels remain among the highest in Asia.
Social workers estimate nearly one in seven people in the city, or almost one million people, are living below the poverty line, including nearly 400,000 children.
"Poverty is seriously affecting children in Hong Kong, leading to problems such as malnutrition. Our situation is a bit like that in third-world countries or developing countries," said social worker Sze Lai-shan.
About 290,000 households in Hong Kong scrape by on social welfare and housing assistance. But the government, battling a ballooning deficit, has been cutting expenditure, including welfare payments to each claimant.