In 2004, I took part in a project (PETI -- Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantíl -- The Program to Eradicate Child Labor) to eliminate child labor within a community that works and lives in a municipal trash dump in Maceió, a city in the state of Alagoas in Northeastern Brazil. This community arose in the late 1980s, from people without economic opportunities who created a livelihood around finding usable objects that had been discarded in the dump. As paper and plastic recycling increased in the region in the 1990s, it became increasingly economically feasible for poor families to move to the dump to collect recyclable materials. Many children in these families left school in order to help their family earn money. In 2004, the Maceió city government created a project (PETI) to eliminate child labor in this community, to make it possible for these children to attend school. Before this, another project, Pitanguinha, attempted to create a cooperative to assist these families in making a living through recycling, but was unable to address the problem of child labor in this community. Within the PETI project, I met with each of the 52 families in the community to discuss opportunities for the families to earn more money, so that every child in the community could attend school for 6 hours each day. In specific, I taught these families how to create handicrafts from materials recycled from the trash dump. The city government, in cooperation with SEBRAE, a for-profit company which serves as a small-business incubator, assisted these families to sell these products in city marketplaces. This project was mostly a success. Child labor in this community was not completely eradicated, but at the project's conclusion, no child worked more than 4 hours a day, and every child in the community now attends school. In addition, the community was able to increase their average income and with further assistance of the city government was able to move out of the trash dump into a neighboring area. The community still works within the Trash Dump, but no longer lives within it, and every child in this community now attends school.