Collage

The first individual assignment is to construct a collage that tells the story of your community - their history, what they do in their day to day lives, their struggles, their hopes and dreams.

Below are some of the keywords and phrases I used to build my collage. I will post a picture of the collage at a later date.

STUFF FOR COLLAGE

From www.toyboxcharity.co.uk

"If a dream could become real, it would be to live with my family and have a different life." Jose, 15 yrs old

"To live on the streets is so sad. If my dream could come true, it would be to have a life without drugs." Alfredo, 13 yrs old

"Life on the street is like a prison because you are mistreated" Miguel, 12 yrs old



GUATEMALA - HISTORY
Civil War
36 years of Internal Conflict
150,000 dead
50,000 missing
Difficult Rebuilding

Hurricane Mitch 1998
Category 5
Most Destructive in Recorded History
26, 000 killed
Drought

Hurricane Stan 2005
760 killed
Long term damage to the infrastructure

Factors
Poverty – areas of poor housing, little access to running water, adequate sanitation
No Education – parents unemployed and illiterate

Types
Orphaned
Abandoned – by parents too poor to cope
Runaways – from physical or sexual abuse

Children OF the street and Children ON the street
Rejected by Society
Regarded as disposable
Victims of harassment and violent abuse

SURVIVAL
Numbing the pain and loneliness → solvent abuse, drug addiction
Starvation vs joinging a violent gang, stealing, begging, selling their bodies
Child prositution
Street life is dangerous