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Out on the streets of Baghdad there is nothing but poverty. Young children, such as these, run through four lanes of traffic, selling sticks of gum or sticks of incense. These children are malnourished and not in school. They have a 400 times chance of dying of a simple thing like measles because of their malnutrition. The ones that are in school have learning disabilities because of their malnutrition. Hundreds of thousands of children are not in school because their families need them to earn any extra money in order to survive

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