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Copán ,
Honduras


The freshly colored maize leaves hang on a wire to dry, she is already making dolls with dried leaves, who then try to sell them in Copàn for a dollar each.
She is only 25 years old and has three children 10, 8 and 1.4 years.
On the table, four stones with a piece of pallet, is her entire possession.
Her house, 3.5 by 3 m, walls of branches with mud, a roof of galvanized corrugated sheets, as the sun rises, the temperature rises to over 60 ° C.
She is super intelligent but where she was born she has no chance, what a waste.
A luck in her accident, Dad saw her and recognized her potential, she gets help, her children can go to school. He/we teach her how to handle modern media / computers, Dad has friends who give her free access to the internet. Dad took care of the smartphone
At their first meeting she was apathetic on parque central, only started moving in the hope of selling something, now she is actively trying to get ahead.
The dolls are unique, are only made in a village in El Mundo Maya. There are only three women in the village who make these Angelitas (engeltjes). They are very precise and labor-intensive.