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ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit group that builds low-cost housing, is opening an unorthodox 'theme park' at its world headquarters this week designed to give tourists a look at the world's worst slums. Millard Fuller, founder of the organization, said he expects the Global Village & Discovery Center to attract as many as 70,000 tourists in its first year of operation. 'Essentially, it's a theme park for poverty housing,' Fuller told Reuters. 'You'll come out of the center and walk right into a slum. You'll see the kind of pitiful living conditions so many people in the world have.' After touring mock slums from Africa, Asia and Central America, visitors to the Global Village will see examples of the modest homes Habitat builds in those regions...
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