Brandon, 2, plays with a shovel while Rosa, 9, looks for trash to burn. Ana and her baby Abraham look on. The family of seven was recently given the gift of a new home, the blue structure seen behind them, by the charity Nuestros Ahijados. The charity has continued to help the family with food, and has enrolled the two eldest children in school.
Etched in chalk, a piece of rusted sheet metal that serves as a gate holds the names of the Raxon family.
Brandon, right, plays with a hose while his mother washes clothing. During the day the two oldest children, Randy and Rosa, attend school while their father works odd jobs.
Ana prepares food in what used to be the one-room family home.
Brandon, Ana, Abraham and Julio sit on their bed while eating lunch; a soupy mixture of rice and vegetables.
Rosa and Brandon dance to music from an old CD player while their brother Esequiel puts away clothing.
Ana, Brandon, Julio and Abraham share a moment. Julio is unemployed, but says he wants to become a painter.
Julio and Abraham play with a basketball.
Rosa takes notes during class. Rosa and her brother Randy both attend first grade classes at the Scheel Center School near their home in San Felipe. The Scheel Center is a school for underprivileged Guatemalan children who did not have the means or support to begin school at the traditional age.
Randy waits his turn to run a relay race in the schoolyard of the Scheel Center. Randy’s father, Julio, was only recently released from a two-month stay in an alcohol rehabilitation center. During that time, Randy was left in charge of the family as his mother Ana was gone all day searching for food.
Julio spends time with his youngest sons, Abraham, left, and Brandon. Since returning from an alcohol rehabilitation center, Julio promises to find a job.
Esequiel washes in the sink.
Brandon plays a game of pick-up with crushed aluminum cans.
Cut in line by a classmate, Rosa waits to have her homework corrected.
Rosa and Esequiel wash after doing chores.
Rosa plays on the bed.
During the day, Abraham is mostly by himself. His parents are often looking for work and food or doing chores, and his two oldest siblings are in school.
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Rosa uses a hose – the family’s only source of water – to wash herself.
Rosa and Brandon share a moment in the wind on a hillside overlooking Antigua and the Volcan de Agua.