El Salvador’s Orphans: Broken Homes, Broken Country
On one side of the highway sits a three-story mall, housing the high-end retail stores and chain restaurants found around the world. On the other side of the street a little girl, no more than four years old, barefoot in a dirty yellow dress, wanders from tin shack to tin shack.
Where Is Home? Children’s Rights in El Salvador
At age five, her father sold their house. At age nine, her mother abandoned their family. By age fifteen, her father was an abusive alcoholic, and Marina and her twin sister went to the police and asked to be put in a children’s home.