Mayan women at the market.

An estimated 657,000 children do not attend school because of a lack of access or because of the cultural acceptance of child labor. Children of Mayan descent are more apt to serve as child laborers in exploitative, abusive situations. Guatemala ranks as the third-highest in child labor statistics among Latin American and Caribbean countries. Chichicastenango, Guatemala, 2014

Francisco wearing the traditional dress of his home town. San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala, 2014.