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In Abject Poverty: Volunteers Gather to Help Clean Up Duroville

by Christina Lange April 2nd, 2013December 16th, 2020

Duroville is synonymous with abject poverty, disgusting messes, noxious fumes, electrical fires, feral dogs and sewage ponds. In the backyard of the glitzy Coachella Valley, our fellow humans were allowed to live in conditions like those in the slums of what we call Third World countries. The park was due to be shut down in […]

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