”Every day we pick vegetables to cook on a fire inside our house. After school I cook lunch. My family’s favourite meal is corn soup and rice.”
”These are my brothers and cousins. We all play football together, so being part of a big family is good.”
“This is my best friend Zacarias with my brother and my nephew. Zacarias is just playing at smoking. People say you should smoke because it’s cold in Hato-Builico. We tell the old men it’s not good for them but they don’t listen."
“My parents never went to school, I am the first one in my family. They tell me education is very important and to go to school every day. In the future I would like to be a teacher or a policeman.”
”We sell our vegetables at the market on Wednesday and Saturday. My father is also a carpenter and I helped him to make this cart.”
“My parents have both passed away so I live with my brother. This photo is taken in my aunt’s house because she lives nearby and I often go there for meals and to sleep sometimes also.”
“Every night our whole family prays together at home. We ask for blessings and thank God.”
“In June we make an offering to the spirits to ask for rain and good weather for the harvest. A Lia nain (traditional law man) hangs corn or maybe a buffalo head on the ai-tos (traditional statue) and prays.”
”I live with my parents, two brothers, three sisters and two uncles. My parents live in this traditional house and we all live in another house. My father was part of the Resistance. He talks about it sometimes.”
“This is my best friend. Buffalo are important to us: when someone dies we bring a buffalo to the Sacred House for a ceremony and talk to the spirits. We kill the buffalo and later we eat it.”
“My mother and father are farmers. I have seven brothers and sisters. I don't live with my parents but I help on weekends and during the school holidays.”
“My grandparents live next door to each other and close to us. Both grandfathers still work on their farms. They dressed in tais, worn for traditional ceremonies, for this photo.”
“My grandmother is blind so I help her find her way to the market. In her basket she has tobacco and a mortar and pestle to grind betelnut because she has no teeth. If she doesn’t have betelnut her face is sad.”