Guatemala: American aid worker killed in traffic accident

Earlier on this blog, I pointed to "Recycled Life," a documentary film by Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad about an aid organization that helps children who live inside a Guatemala City dump.

The name of that group is Safe Passage, and its founder, 36-year-old Hanley Denning, has been killed in a traffic accident in Guatemala. She was known to many in Guatemala as "La Angel del Basurero," or "the guardian angel of the dump dwellers."

News reports: 1, 2, and here is a Hollywood Reporter story about the bittersweet news that "Recycled Life" has been nominated for a 2007 Academy Award.

Previously:

Guatemala: Recycled Life, film on dump residents