Am 18.3. attended the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, a project carried out by the partner organization Misereor CIDAP project in the district of Lomas de Carabayllo limen. The minister was accompanied by a delegation consisting of Ms. Dorothea Groth, director of the Office of Latin America in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Ambassador Dr. Christoph Müller and the Commissioner for Economic Cooperation of the German Embassy, Kerstin Sieverdingbeck.
The people of Lomas de Carabaylllo the delegation presented its environmental problems, due mainly to an illegally operating hazardous waste dump, the poor in the middle of the district is: people with no other income and a secure livelihood recycle there for many years highly infectious hospital waste, which constitutes a grave threat to both their own health and the people who later recycled with the needles, syringes and gloves are treated .
also burn people for the recovery of lead from old car batteries and then sell the raw metal processing companies. Both activities lead to serious environmental and health problems. 
The Misereor CIDAP partner organization has with the local people, a health study performed and demonstrated that the people have massively elevated lead levels in the blood. The NGO has worked at both local and national level, proposals to resolve the problem. So shall embodied in a first step, the waste recycling and are aware of the problem. At the national level, a bill was presented, which prohibits the importation of old car batteries for recycling. 
The German politician listened to the residents with great interest and promised to raise the issue in her talks with Peruvian officials on the language. It is not sufficient that the country is a high economic Increasing all, if this growth does not arrive even in the poorest sections of society. She promised that the West German government would support the Peruvian government and offer advice on creating an environment ministry and in the implementation of sustainable environmental policy.
