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Horacio Zeballos Gamez Community |
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Most children must make bricks outside with their parents, causing their hands to be extremely dry and cracked
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Most children, like Ruth and Yaneth seen above,
work outside making bricks with their parents
during the wee hours of the morning
and again throughout the afternoon
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Due to the poverty in which they live, most children
have shoes that are too small or that suffer from
holes through which their toes emerge |
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Due to the dry, arid, desert-like climate, dust storms frequently
blow through the community. |

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One family host a small snack stand along
the main road into town |
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A typical home in Horacio Zeballos Gamez is comparable in size to a small kitchen in the U.S. |

Many children suffer from dry, chapped faces
due to the climate in Horacio Zeballos |

A typical home in Horacio Zeballos |
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The typical woman in Horacio Zeballos
carries her children with here at all times,
wrapped up in a colored blanket on her back
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The majority of adults and children work in the brick making industry, working long hours with very little compensation |

Local children use ropes to form swings
to play on |
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