1. How does the below relate to microeconomics?

Recycled orchestras The people of Cateura

ever heard of a town built on a garbage

dump we hadn't until earlier this year

when we visited a community on the

outskirts of asion the capital of the

tiny impoverished South American country

of Paraguay it's called Cura and there's

trash everywhere in its streets its

rivers in people's backyards but we

decided to take you to Cura tonight not

because of the poverty or the filth

but because of the incredible

imagination and Ingenuity of the people

who live there our story is also a

reminder that ultimately music will

Triumph everywhere and

anywhere the story will continue in a

moment garbage is the only crop in C Y

and the Harvest lasts 12 months a

year it is K's curse its livelihood and

the only reason people live here it

provides hundreds of jobs to Peasant

farmers who are kicked off their pots by

large land owners they are the trash

Pickers it is their

profession they sift through the stench

24 hours a day

spring for anything they can sell 10

cents for a pound of

plastic 5 cents for a pound of

cardboard you'll be amazed at what else

people are doing here with this trash

just look and

listen this is the Recycled Orchestra of

Katura the violins are fashioned from

oven

trays the cellos from oil

barrels even the strings are

recycled the saxophones and trumpets are

made from old drain pipes the keys Wars

coins and bottle

caps the strum skin used to be an X-Ray

plate the guitar from

deserts the idea came from environmental

technician Favio

chz when he came to Katura and saw the

kids working and playing on this

miserable Hill he came up with the idea

of starting a music school to lift the

kids' lives out of the

trash from the start Favio realized that

even if he could raise the money new

instruments were out of the question the

factory made violin would cost more than

a house here and would almost certainly

get stolen but these fiddles aren't

worth a

die here are the handiwork of trash

worker and Carpenter Don Cola Gomez 3

days a week he goes to the dump to find

the raw

materials then in his tiny workshop at

the edge of the dump he goes to work

Favio first asked him to make a violin

but this Stratovarius of South America

had never seen one or heard one do you

realize how unusual it is

yes that's the way it is when you need

something you need to do whatever it

takes to

survive he was soon making three violins

a week then shells and finally guitars

drums and double bases all out of

trash take a look and listen to what

cola has

created 15-year-old ad Ros has been

playing for 3 years now today she is the

orchestra's first

violinist the first time you went and

saw the orchestra and you say all these

instruments with all these different

colors were you surprised when you

learned that they were made from

trash I was very surprised because I had

thought that trash was

useless but thanks to the orchestra I

now realized that there are so many

different things that can be done with

this stuff cure didn't exist before

Paraguay's capital ason started dumping

its trash here the town grew up around

the garbage and became one of the

poorest places in South America 2500

families live here now there's hardly

any electricity or Plumbing the drinking

water is contaminated many of the

children move from broken homes to crime

and drugs but Ada and her younger sister

Noelia who plays the cello say that

music has become their salvation the

centerpiece of their lives and who do

they have to thank for that their

grandmother

Miriam she is a garbage worker collects

bottles in the streets of asion carries

them back to ctia to sell 10 cents a

pound 3 years ago Maran saw a notice

advertising free music lessons for

children that's how it all began

why did you want them to learn

music because I always wanted to be a

musician or play an instrument actually

I wanted to be a singer sometimes our

dreams do come true maybe not in our

lives but through people that we love

very

much when I play the violin I feel like

I am somewhere

else I imagine that I'm alone in my own

world and forget about everything else

around me and feel transported to a

beautiful place can you describe that

beautiful place see

in I'm transported to a place that is

completely different to where I am now

it has clear skies Open Fields And I see

lots of green it's clean with no trash

there's no contamination where we live

it's just me alone playing my

violin

every Saturday this drab schoolyard is

transformed into a multicolored Oasis Of

Music the kids flock here to learn and

to

play Kuda is a long way from Jew yard

but these music students are just as

dedicated as those prodigies in New York

and they don't get rained on like the

kids

here Paraguay is in the tropics and

you're reminded of that all the

time but the band plays

on the veterans 15-year-olds are

teaching the novices many are barely big

enough to hold a

violin the music can't compete with the

downpour but there is refuge in a

classroom Favio shave says that music

teaches the kids respect and

responsibility not common Commodities in

the gang ridden streets of

kayura

these values are completely different to

those of

gangs if these kids love being part of

the orchestra they're absolutely going

to hate being part of a

gang for the first time the children are

getting out of Kota performing around

the country and a shavez the Pied Piper

of paraguai that's the most important

thing they're being seen they're being

heard these are children that were

hidden nobody even knew they

existed we have put them on a stage and

now everybody looks at them and

everybody knows they

exist that's mainly because of a

documentary that's being made about the

orchestra called land

philarmonic

last November the producers put their

trailer up on YouTube it went viral the

orchestra began getting bookings

worldwide it is such stuff as dreams are

made

on the film which follows their

remarkable journey through concert halls

in Europe and America will only be

released next

year but already instruments are being

donated and that's not all the kids are

getting help

Paraguay's most famous musician Berto

roas flies down regularly from her home

in Maryland to offer master

classes remember nellia has a sister the

chist Berta is teaching her how to play

the guitar this is a a an a story that is

filling my heart and my soul with with

so much inspiration you know when you

first heard them play what went through

your

mind I couldn't believe that you could

make music with trash I couldn't believe

it and I thought oh my God this is the

best thing that had happened in parai in

so many

years and when you talk to the parents

you hear what you hear from poor people

everywhere they want the kids to have a

better life than they've had Jorge Rios

is ATA and noelia's father if she

becomes a professional musici she'd

probably be leaving

town how would you react to

that yes the truth is if you ask that

question to every parent here they would

say they would leave this place if they

could I of course would like her to have

a better life than the one I've

had and if she leaves I hope she takes

me with

her it's hard to believe is that most of

the parents and the people of catota had

never heard the children play that was

about to

change a concert was finally scheduled

there were banners in the streets the

local radio station was ready to

broadcast the church was transformed

into a concert hall the children wore

their finest this was after all opening

night it could have been New

York all the students were on stage for

the finale some of the musicians were

performing after just one

rehearsal the parents were proud of

course but just listen to the girl's

Grandma

Miram I would say it's a blessing from

God people used to humiliate us and call

us trash Pickers today they're more

civilized they call us the

recyclers so I feel that this is a

reward from God that our children who

come from this place can play Beautiful

music in this

way