Orchestra Formed at Garbage Dump

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Orchestra Formed at Garbage Dump

A poor community in Paraguay has formed an amazing orchestra that plays instruments created from recycled trash. The young musicians come from the city of Cateura, a slum that's built on a landfill. More than 1500 tons of trash gets dumped into the landfill every day. About 1,000 residents make their living by picking through the trash with long hooks called ganchos (hence ...

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russ cripps

November 12, 2014 10:48am

As Andy said... you must watch the video!!! I downloaded it and used the video within the sermon.

Andy Cook

January 08, 2013 5:25pm

Check out the video. An amazing story. Beautiful music from a landfill. God can do the same thing with any life.

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