La Chureca- in English
Instead of kicking a brightly colored plastic ball to her friends during recess, five-year-old Rosita kicks broken bottles at football-sized rats while her mother scavenges in the Guatemala City garbage dump. The only lesson Rosita will learn today is how to search through rotting garbage for shards of metal and glass to recycle – or for scraps of food that might lessen her piercing pains of hunger.
The United Nations estimates that between 35 – 45 % of the Central American population live in gross poverty and extreme want. Dumpsites and hillsides are crawling with tens of thousands of squatters who put up dwellings of plastic and cardboard trying to eke out some measure of life. These primitive camps without electricity, sewers, or clean water exist along expressway roads and in the midst of cities.
the documentary is in English:
there is so much more I could learn...
what happened to your own video production LAV?
I eagerly await your next piece.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Thank you for the high praise. Actually, the video is my own creation. I made it as a small donation to a non-profit organization. I am currently working on an English version of the film. Basically, the video is about a dumpsite community called La Chureca. Roughly about 175 families live in this garbage dump and "Christ for the poor" provides food and medical assistance to them. It is basically a fund raising and educational video for their work.
My lastest project is rather ambitious. It explains Religions, Monarchies, political movements, and power as evolutionary stratagems. Most of us are aware of the who and how of the current conspiracy but lack a deeper understanding of why the power elite persist in their quest for world domination. Unfortunately it requires a lot of research and time to complete the project.
here is a teaser article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/29/AR200704...