,,There are up to 20 000 street kids estimated in Honduras, thousends alone around the city of Tegucigalpa" says José Manuel Capellin, director of Casa Alianza Honduras. Once started as a refuge for displaced children during the armed conflict in neighboring country Guatemala, Casa Alianza grew to a strong Central American organisation focusing on the behalf of children. They offer...
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,,There are up to 20 000 street kids estimated in Honduras, thousends alone around the city of Tegucigalpa" says José Manuel Capellin, director of Casa Alianza Honduras. Once started as a refuge for displaced children during the armed conflict in neighboring country Guatemala, Casa Alianza grew to a strong Central American organisation focusing on the behalf of children. They offer shelter, medical care and education programs for the forgotten street kids of Central America.

People in Honduras suffer the abstinence of a social system, every year more and more people prefer to move to cities, seeking for paid work and live in slums. Because of the deteriorating social situation the traditional family construction is under thread. Many children end up in the streets abandoned by their families. The forgotten children suffer hunger, drugs, poverty, prostitution, emotional starvation and physical danger.

About 5 years of his lifetime 14 years old Guillermo spend on his own in the streets of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. ,,I had no parents that me wanted. My sister said that I'd better leave the house. That's why i was raised by my grandma until she passed away when i was 9 years old. Then i had to live on the streets and fight for my food."

When little Guillermo started his life on the streets like many others in Tegucigalpa he tried to make a living of selling fruits, water or sweets at traffic lights. Due to the hard competition among the street kids many end up collecting trash and sell the different materials for some pennies to recycling companies. Behind the market halls hungry kids seek for old tomatoes, almost rotten potatoes or other as waste declared products nobody want to buy anymore.
In 2009 Guillermo came to Casa Alianza and now studies in 4th grade primary school and attends paint and theatre workshops. He found friends, children his age that also yet lived and fought another life on their own in the streets of Honduras.
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