Our program in this poverty stricken Mayan, Tzutuhil village began in 1997 as part of a six year program designed to have the children from various communities in Guatemala use photography and writing skills to look at the effects of Guatemala’s 36 year civil war.
Fotokids was founded in 1991 by ex-Reuters photojournalist Nancy McGirr, who handed cameras to eight children that lived with their families alongside thousands of others in Guatemala City's municipal garbage dump and had them document their lives.
