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Hello there, friend.

Sure hope you're having a good day.

Today's episode brings us to one of the most unlikely heroes of the Bible.

Rehab, maybe you know her story.

Maybe you can relate to her story. Nothing to lose. Pulled from the bottom of the pit,

pressed into service for God's plan. God used her because she trusted him. Maybe we all have that in common with Rahab.

Well, people in Paraguay are making music with their trash.

They're turning washtubs into kettle drums, plastic hoses into trumpets.

Other orchestras fine-tuned their mahogany cellos and brass tubas

but not this band the kids from cartura padagui have found a way to play beethoven sonatas with plastic

buckets credit a man by the name of don cola He's a garbage picker who lives in the shack

beside the town dump. On his side of Ansunsillon, the garbage is the only crop to harvest.

He and thousands like him sort and sell refuse for 10 cents a pound. They are the poorest of Paraguay's poor.

In many ways, they have met the same fate as the trash. They've been tossed out. They've been

discarded. But Cola is bringing music their way. He had never seen, held, or heard a violin in his life. Yet when someone described

the instrument to him, this untutored craftsman took a paint can and an oven tray into his tiny

workshop and he made a violin. His next project was a cello. He fashioned the body out of an oil barrel and made tuning

knobs out of a hairbrush the heel of a shoe and a wooden spoon thanks to this trash

dump strativarius the junk gets a mulligan and so do the kids who live among it. They're playing the

instruments. And ever since their story hit the news, they've been tutored by world-class

maestroes and featured on national television programs. Why, they've even gone on a world tour.

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