Guatemala has been in a civil war for 36 years. In the bloody conflict over 200.000 people fled to refugee camps in Chiapas. When the peace agreements were signed most of the refugees slowly came back to their home-land.
They settled together in little refugee villages deep in the Peten jungle. The first of these villages that was build is
El camino hacia el futuro mejor
Early in the morning. The children are on their way to school. A new school is now being build outside of the village.
´Macheteando´
Pascal and his father are cleaning their lands to prepare for a new season of growing maize.
Centrado
Three sisters walk back from the river, carefully balancing a heavy water jar on their heads.
El puente al juego
La Milpa
This girl comes back from the cornfields. She uses the two sticks to make holes in the ground to sow new corn.
El Rio de Oro
The happy woman is balancing a jar of water she got from the river near the village.
Griton
La honda
Kids are playing with a slingshot next to the river.
Pura vida
None of the kids wear shoes in La Quetzal.
Abrasso
Sombras del pasado
The boy enjoys the morning sun as he walks past the building of the cooperative...
Mayan sombrero
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