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angel eyes
Not sharp focus but I like it. Her name is Angel and I think her sticking out ear(s) make her look like a little pixie. She lives in extreme poverty in the barrio Villa Esperanza (Village of Hope), Granada , Nicaragua. The families in the barrio have an average income of $2 a day, yet Angel looks as healthy and bright eyed as the child of any middle class family in northamerica. What she needs is an education for that is her only hope of escape from barrio poverty into a brighter future. Kathy Adams and her team at Empowerment International work with the kids of Villa Esperanza, get them into school, motivate them to stay there. They try to keep that beacon of hope lit and shining a path to their future. Angel is not in EI's programme but she's a "child of hope" nonetheless. May those eyes shine brightly all the days of her life.
all images in the "child of hope" series taken for Empowerment International
angel eyes
Not sharp focus but I like it. Her name is Angel and I think her sticking out ear(s) make her look like a little pixie. She lives in extreme poverty in the barrio Villa Esperanza (Village of Hope), Granada , Nicaragua. The families in the barrio have an average income of $2 a day, yet Angel looks as healthy and bright eyed as the child of any middle class family in northamerica. What she needs is an education for that is her only hope of escape from barrio poverty into a brighter future. Kathy Adams and her team at Empowerment International work with the kids of Villa Esperanza, get them into school, motivate them to stay there. They try to keep that beacon of hope lit and shining a path to their future. Angel is not in EI's programme but she's a "child of hope" nonetheless. May those eyes shine brightly all the days of her life.
all images in the "child of hope" series taken for Empowerment International