Children of Guatemala

Children at the orphanage "Proyecto Casa Guatemala," on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, grow under the loving if transient care of international volunteers. Travellers who stop here for a week or a month quickly learn to be mama and papa, as there is no permanent staff in charge of the children.

Taken off the streets of Guatemala City or removed from abusive families, the children are usually not legally adoptable and remain in the orphanage until they reach age 16.