Guadalajara Daily Photo

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Learning to live


Street children is a very common (and sad) problem in Mexico. I think is really hard for them to learn to live such a hard life from a very young age.

I don’t think this class of “education” is available from books, but I least I’m glad this cute boy was looking forward to find a new world from his reading.
posted by Liz Feliz at 7:38 AM

4 Comments:

It seems that too many countries in the world do not do well for their children, the most vulnerable citizens. We also have problems, and I grieve for all those children. Am spending 3 months in Mazatlán and plan to volunteer in an orphanage there. Does Guadalajara also have orphanages available to those children?

5:30 AM  

So sad to see kids like this, who have so little. Poor boy.

6:19 PM  

We don't really have street children in my country of Australia. It's hard to comprehend how these little people can cope with such a life. My own childhood was very sheltered so it probably made me soft. I imagine that street children might gain some strength and worldly life skills from their ordeal?

9:19 PM  

Kate:

Yes we have them, but as you can imagine, they're not enough:(

Annulla:
It breaks your heart to see this almost every day. I'm afraid that some day we'll see this as normal.

Gavin:
That's a very optimistic way to see this problem. I think that yes, they get a faster way to see life, but sometimes they grow up mad, and have no where to put all that angriness. Hope this kid, at least, could be happy.

12:12 PM  

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