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Outlook: Burying Chile's Abandoned Babies

Bernarda Gallardo

22/04/2015

Burying Chile's Abandoned Babies

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The woman adopting dead babies to give them a decent burial.

In 2003 Chilean Bernarda Gallardo read a story in her local paper about a dead baby who'd been found on a rubbish dump. She made it her mission to give the baby a proper burial.

In 2003 a Chilean woman called Bernarda Gallardo saw a story in her local paper which changed her life.  A dead baby girl had been found on the local rubbish dump, literally thrown out with the household waste.  The article had such an impact on her that she made it her mission to give the baby a proper burial. 

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(Photo: Bernarda Gallardo. Credit: Jane Chambers)

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