Toys: 'Not Sold in Stores'.

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A toy exhibit, with the theme "Not Sold in Stores", recently opened at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Put together by the Christian Children's Fund (CCF), the exhibit displays over 100 toys made by children from discarded materials and trash in some of the poorest countries of the world. As part of an assistance programme, the CCF encouraged children in Africa, Asia and Latin America to collect every conceivable scrap to make the toys.

The imagination and inventiveness of children revealed through these toys show the spirit of childhood and the...