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Recycled Orchestra of Cateura

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Landfill Harmonic: An Orchestra Built From Trash in Paraguay

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🇵🇾 Paraguay

In a slum built beside Asunción's largest landfill, children play violins made from oil cans and cellos made from packing crates.

450studentsStudents in the free music school
2,500familiesFamilies living around the Cateura landfill
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