Christmas through the Eyes of a Street Child

As part of our Christmas 2005 campaign, Casa Alianza Guatemala gave out 120 disposable cameras and asked the children to capture the spirit of Christmas through their eyes. The result was a wide range of images showing the children’s perception of what Christmas meant to them. Read more

CNN: Out of Guatemala Dump: Art, Hope, and Changed Lives

Guatemala City - It began with an assignment to photograph slum kids, which prompted the idea of letting children scavenging for a living in a municipal garbage dump take pictures of their world. The experiment, unique at the time, was meant to last for six months. Read more

NY Times: Young Lives Transformed, Guided by a Camera Lens; Guatemalan Fotokids Capture Pain and Joy

One of the first photographs Evelyn Mansilla ever took was of a peaceful landscape of rolling hills peeking out through a thicket of trees. Not a single soul or a speck of garbage was visible, which was almost miraculous, since she took the photo inside the sprawling municipal dump where she and her mother often joined dozens of neighbors to scavenge. Read more