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In Lebanon, parents are abandoning their children in orphanages

14 mins | Feb 22, 2023

With the Lebanese economy descending into a spiral of hyperinflation and debt default, Wendell Steavenson meets with poverty-stricken families to discover the terrible price of their government's failures.

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