A SALVADOREAN GLUE SNIFFER SITS WITH BANDAGE COVERING FACIAL INURY.
A Salvadorean glue-sniffer, who calls himself "Roberto", sits with a bandage on his face covering a wound from a fight with other street kids at a rubbish dump in the capital San Salvador August 18. The Olaf Palme foundation initiated a campaign to try to control the sale of glue which thousands of street children buy to sniff. Several adhesives are highly toxic and cause serious damage to the central nervous system, leaving some of the children who sniff them paralyzed from the waist down.
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