Being Poor and Living in the Honduran Countryside

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Carin Steen wrote in Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa about “Teresa’s Story.”  Steen tells the story: “This is about a family that I’ve known for years, living in a small village near Copán Ruinas. The oldest kids were some of the first students I ever taught and the rest of the brothers and sisters steadily followed over the years, participating in our photo, mapping, art and video projects. I remember all too well how we celebrated the end of a video project about five years ago when we noticed that one of the participants, the thirteen year old daughter of this particular family, looked a bit chubby.

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