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- 250 children and 1,000 adults rummage through the trash dump of Tegucigalpa every day, searching for something to sell or eat.
- Sergie, 12, is one of those children: “I wish I had another choice.”
- Dump trucks sometime crush the children and landslides of trash suffocate others to death.
- The people work for 10 hours a day to collect bottles, and then cash them in for $2.
- Child prostitution and drug abuse is rampant.
- Abortions are routinely performed and dismembered bodies are found among the refuse.
- 20,000 children live on the streets throughout Honduras.
- 42 new children become homeless every month.
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Teen Girls Dream of a Better Life
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Dressed in plaid uniforms with white knee-high socks, several teenage girls—students at AFE School—sit in the grass under a tree to talk. Gaby, 17, wants to be a translator when she gets older. Grisenda, 16, a doctor. Mayra, 14, a pediatrician. Angie, 16, a lawyer. Maoly, 13, a psychologist. Merly, 16, is too shy to say.
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While all the girls are teenagers, their academic level is third grade. They all want to travel—and all dissolve into giggles when asked if they have boyfriends. Teenage girls in Honduras are not so different from teenage girls obsessed with The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in the States.
But how many teens in the U.S. work in a trash dump at 4 a.m. before going to school, as these girls do every day?
“I want my sisters to have another kind of job and another kind of life,” Grisenda says. She feels guilty that she is the only child able to go to school. Angie, however, masks her fear with a cavalier response: “I like working in the dump because it’s a job.” But in the same breath she admits she worries about not having help to go to school. She dreams of moving to Spain, Australia, or Mongolia.
Maoly, 13, likes AFE “because this school has a lot of friendship. I feel a lot of love for us.” When asked if they believe God loves them, all the girls say “yes.” One says, “I know it now that I am here.”
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