BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Children living in a slum in Argentina’s capital are playing cricket as part of an initiative to help them escape poverty and crime.

Villa 21-24 in Buenos Aires is a slum so dangerous that most outsiders don’t dare enter. But the kids playing the ball-and-bat sport in a dirt training ground say they’ve found new hope in a sport that is mostly restricted to the elite.

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