Other Projects
Mercy Corp
Fotokids under the auspices of Mercy Corp, in a USAID funded project, was contracted to work with children living within contiguous gang dominated neighborhoods to build a sense of community and help develop their strength to fight back. Fotokids used photography to inspire a sense of identity and promote leadership, working with 200 young people. The program culminated in three exhibitions held in the barrios we worked in, Villa Nueva, El Bucaro and kids living on the fringe of the garbage dump.
HIV
Fotokids teachers worked with children In Guatemala City who were born HIV positive. As they were approaching adolescence, it was important to not only educate them on the condition and how to live with it, but to help them shape an identity that wasn’t just based on the fact they had AIDS.
Mercy Corp
Fotokids under the auspices of Mercy Corp, in a USAID funded project, was contracted to work with children living within contiguous gang dominated neighborhoods to build a sense of community and help develop their strength to fight back. Fotokids used photography to inspire a sense of identity and promote leadership, working with 200 young people. The program culminated in three exhibitions held in the barrios we worked in, Villa Nueva, El Bucaro and kids living on the fringe of the garbage dump.
Ciudad Quetzal
Evelyn Mansilla, now Executive Director, while completing her journalism degree at the University of San Carlos, dreamt of giving back to her community in a unique and highly personal way by starting her own project in a small impoverished neighborhood an hour away from Guatemala City (Ciudad Quetzal). Every Saturday she took time out of her busy university and Fotokids schedule to bus to Ciudad Quetzal to teach a group of 9 students between the ages of 6 and 13. The results were an impressive leap forward in the students’ school grade averages.
La Lucerna
The non-profit Plan International contracted Fotokids to initiate a 6-month project working with poor children in an isolated village on the skirts of the active volcano Fuego. Fotokids staff used photography and writing skills to promote creativity, self-expression, self-confidence and encourage leadership skills, in this case to a group of 5th and 6th graders.
Antigua-Children with Disabilities
Fotokids designed a three-year photography program as therapy and empowerment for children with spina bifida and other spinal problems in conjunction with a local non-profit,Transitions. The wheelchair bound children from 5 to 12 years old, had one Fotokid from the City as their personal mentor and teacher. For many it was their only outing all week and they zoomed around Antigua Guatemala taking photographs, gaining confidence and learning to see.
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