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UNICEF USA: Process to Create Bricks from UNICEF USA on Vimeo.

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For World Children’s Day, the children of the village of Sakassou, in the center of Côte d’Ivoire, painted their new school, made out of recycled plastic bricks blue. They took control of the school and showed the adults that they were the masters of the place. For every child, one voice.