The Children of Honduras
There are 180,000 orphans in Honduras. The government only requires six years of compulsory education. Of the country’s 7 million inhabitants, 41 percent are under age 14. Youths head 10 percent of Honduran households, and 68 percent of these households are below the poverty line.
Last year over three quarters of the birth certificates issued had only the mothers name.
Black communities living on the Caribbean coast are commonly called Garifuna.