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Life on the Rubbish Dump

Thousands of people fleeing war in the Middle East have headed to the relative safety of Kurdish controlled Northern Iraq. For Our World, Namak Khoshnaw has been to meet refugee families whose only means of survival is to scavenge in the rubbish dump which serves the regional capital, Erbil.

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