shoe shine kids

Shoe-shine Kids vs The Visitors

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Here’s your Guatemalan-Spanish word of the day: Chamusca, an informal football match. All you need is a few friends or visitors, a dirt field or park and a fútbol ball to build life-long relationships. In this picture, you can see how the shoe-shine kids take a break from work, leave their wooden shoe-shine boxes on … Read more

Immigration of Maya K’iche’ Children to Antigua Guatemala

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Here’s the story of Adam and Domingo, which is the typical story of many of the kids and teenagers of the high lands of Guatemala. Adam was trained in the loom to create the beautiful textiles of Quiché at his native San Antonio Ilotenango, a beautiful town with a lagoon at the center of it. … Read more

Good News from Guatemala: Helping The Shoe Shine Kids Prepare for a Better Future

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One week after I started AntiguaDailyPhoto on May 1, 2006 I pointed out how kids should be in school instead of working on the streets. The entry was entitled Tourists and shoe-shining boy. Only two weeks later I presented you a little boy no more than 5 years old with a shoe shining box in … Read more