FOTOKIDS
GRADUATES
Ours is an integrated project focused on breaking the cycle of poverty. Fotokids requires that all of our students attend school and provides full and partial scholarships (dependent on academic achievement) most of whom could not otherwise afford to study past the sixth grade. This year we have 5 students studying at the university level and 12 have graduated, a significant accomplishment for our young people despite neighborhood pressure to work or have children.
Berta studying for her law degree, working in human rights and has had her own radio program in Tzutuhil for Mayan women. In 2023 she ran for Mayor of Santiago Atilán, the first indigenous woman to do so.
Abdias (2nd from left) in Mesquital a poor barrio of the city in the year 2000, now is the Chief photographer for the Guatemalan President and manages the photo team