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Rescuing children from a trash dump

June 12, 2011
"We work with the families, we work with the schools, we work with the medical or health centers in order to ... get them out of the labor situation."
- Durón Miranda

Elena Duron Miranda once witnessed children eating and collecting items from a trash dump in Bariloche, Argentina. Today, her nonprofit, PETISOS, helps keep about 200 children out of the dump and enrolled in school.

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