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The Children of the Street 28 images Created 20 Dec 2006

Over 10,000 children and young adults spend protracted lives on the streets of Guatemala.

Text to accompany images (approx. 900 words) is available in English and Spanish.
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  • A street child, dressed as a clown, performs for money in Zone 11 in Guatemala City, Guatemala on Friday, March 9, 2007.
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  • Crypts of street children occupy a mausoleum in a cemetery in Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua.
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  • Crypts of street children occupy a mausoleum in a cemetery in Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua.
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  • Crypts of street children occupy a mausoleum in a cemetery in Ciudad Vieja, near Antigua.
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  • A child finds slight refuge on the stoop of a store as he sleeps in Guatemala City's Zone 8.
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  • Jorge, 15, huffs solvent from a soaked ball of cloth. Guatemala's street kids mainly use paint thinner instead of glue, as it is cheaper and gives them a sense of relief from hunger pains and cold nights. A small bottle of paint thinner costs less than a dollar.
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  • Kevin, 11 years old, shines shoes in Chimaltenango, far from his parents and home in Quetzaltenango. Poor Guatemalan children are often sent off to bring in money for families that cannot afford to feed them. Kevin said he has never been to school.
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  • A young girl juggles at an intersection in hopes of a few Quetzales from drivers. Poor Guatemalan children are often sent off to bring in money for families that cannot afford to feed them.
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  • About 20 teenagers and young adults live at an abandoned gas station in Guatemala City's Zone 4. Human waste litters the grounds.. About 20 otherwise homeless people live inside the station, and most are addicted to huffing paint thinner to numb the cold and their hunger pains.
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  • Guatemalan youth hang out on a corner in Zona 8 of Guatemala City, Guatemala on Monday, June 13, 2005. Many of "los niños de la calle,"--the children of the streets--are addicted to paint thinner, soaking balls of cloth with it and holding the toxic rags to their mouths. The children and young adults prefer solvent to glue because it is cheaper and helps them forget their hunger pains and cold. Carlos Toledo, director and founder of Nuestros Derechos--Our Rights- a Guatemalan non-governmental organization that tries to help the children off the streets and into society, said there are about 10,000 children living without homes or stable lives in Guatemala. "These children are illegal in their own country," Toledo said, since most have no legal documentation and are not recognized as existing by the government.
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  • About 20 teenagers and young adults live at an abandoned gas station in Guatemala City's Zone 4. Human waste litters the grounds.. About 20 otherwise homeless people live inside the station, and most are addicted to huffing paint thinner to numb the cold and their hunger pains.
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  • About 20 teenagers and young adults live at an abandoned gas station in Guatemala City's Zone 4. Human waste litters the grounds.. About 20 otherwise homeless people live inside the station, and most are addicted to huffing paint thinner to numb the cold and their hunger pains.
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  • Sandra Guamux, 21, sits with her five-month-old son, Alfredo, at an abandoned gas station in Zone 4 of Guatemala City, Guatemala. About 20 otherwise homeless people live inside the station, and most are addicted to huffing paint thinner to numb the cold and their hunger pains. Guamux said a baby was stolen from her five days after it was born last year, and she is convinced the baby went into an illegal adoption system. She added that the police told her they would not investigate the situation since she had no photograph of the child.
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  • Sandra Guamux, 21, sits with her five-month-old son, Alfredo, at an abandoned gas station in Zone 4 of Guatemala City, Guatemala. About 20 otherwise homeless people live inside the station, and most are addicted to huffing paint thinner to numb the cold and their hunger pains. Guamux said a baby was stolen from her five days after it was born last year, and she is convinced the baby went into an illegal adoption system. She added that the police told her they would not investigate the situation since she had no photograph of the child.
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  • Juan Carlos Figueroa spends his nights on a corner in Gautemala City's Zone 8. In his cupped hand he holds a ball of cloth soaked with paint thinner for huffing. Many of "los niños de la calle,"--the children of the streets--are addicted to paint thinner, soaking balls of cloth with it and holding the toxic rags to their mouths. The children and young adults prefer solvent to glue because it is cheaper and helps them forget their hunger pains and cold. Carlos Toledo, director and founder of Nuestros Derechos--Our Rights- a Guatemalan non-governmental organization that tries to help the children off the streets and into society, said there are about 10,000 children living without homes or stable lives in Guatemala. "These children are illegal in their own country," Toledo said, since most have no legal documentation and are not recognized as existing by the government.
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  • A view of Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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  • A street child shows off one of his few possessions--a photograph of his younger brother in an elementary school graduation uniform.
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  • Wilma Janet Chacon (left), 17, learns at a children's court that she will not be given custody of her daughter until she proves that she will stay off the street and off drugs. Geovanni Marroquín, the child's father at right, is a reformed former street youth now back at home and in school. The mediator told Chacon she has two months to straighten up. A week later, she was back on the streets.
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  • Carlos Toledo, director and founder of Nuestros Derechos--Our Rights- a Guatemalan non-governmental organization that tries to help the children off the streets and into society, takes a phone call in the children's court of the Organismo Judicial in Guatemala City.
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  • Teens gather plastic in Guatemala City's massive trash dump, where people over 14 years old are allowed to spend their days rummaging for recyclables.
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  • A child's doll lays stuck in filth behind a dwelling in Guatemala City's massive trash dump, where people over 14 years old are allowed to spend their days rummaging for recyclables.
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  • Joel Luna, who believes he is 18, shows a surgical scar made when doctors pulled a private guard's bullet from his back and tried to repair the damage. Luna said a friend stole a cell phone in Guatemala City, and as Luna ran the guard shot him in the back.
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  • Guatemalan youth hang out on a corner in Zona 8 of Guatemala City, Guatemala on Monday, June 13, 2005. Many of "los niños de la calle,"--the children of the streets--are addicted to paint thinner, soaking balls of cloth with it and holding the toxic rags to their mouths. The children and young adults prefer solvent to glue because it is cheaper and helps them forget their hunger pains and cold. Carlos Toledo, director and founder of Nuestros Derechos--Our Rights- a Guatemalan non-governmental organization that tries to help the children off the streets and into society, said there are about 10,000 children living without homes or stable lives in Guatemala. "These children are illegal in their own country," Toledo said, since most have no legal documentation and are not recognized as existing by the government.
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  • A hallway in the children's court of the Organismo Judicial in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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  • A young Mayan girl sits with a police officer in the children's court in Guatemala City. The officer said he found her alone, begging for money in the central park. The girl said her closest relatives are her parents in Quiche, hundreds of miles from the capitol.
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  • Ubelia, a four-year-old Guatemalan girl, drinks soda offered by representatives of the NGO "Nuestros Derechos" on a sidewalk that borders the upscale Zona Viva in Guatemala City, Guatemala on Monday night, June 13, 2005. Ubelia is one of seven children that live with their parents, including mother Claudia Leticia Roque Jolón (cq), next to the giant trash dump in Zone 3. Claudia, 35, said she has lived in El Basurero for 7 years, and has spent 12 years living in the street. The family lives now in a two-room shanty with dirt floors, a garbage- and filth-strewn back yard and scores of flies.
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  • Street teenagers Julio and Aura make out in Guatemala City's Zone 8. Pilar Lopez, coordinator of Medicos Sin Fronteras, said street kids often come to her clinic with sexually transmitted diseases. Many of "los niños de la calle,"--the children of the streets--are addicted to paint thinner, soaking balls of cloth with it and holding the toxic rags to their mouths. The children and young adults prefer solvent to glue because it is cheaper and helps them forget their hunger pains and cold. Carlos Toledo, director and founder of Nuestros Derechos--Our Rights- a Guatemalan non-governmental organization that tries to help the children off the streets and into society, said there are about 10,000 children living without homes or stable lives in Guatemala. "These children are illegal in their own country," Toledo said, since most have no legal documentation and are not recognized as existing by the government.
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  • A man huffing paint thinner sits in one of Guatemala City's massive trash dumps, where people make a meager income rummaging for recyclable debris.
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