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"La Paz, Bolivia"

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I start work at 09.00am and stop at 08.00pm

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I earn 40 bolivianos ($6) and with

that I buy lunch and dinner.

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I am Marlene Paulina Ticuna Gutierrez…

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Mother of  Tinguito Perco

Lady of Miranda…

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I am a shoeshiner in central San Francisco.

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What a tongue-twister!

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This is my daughter Ms Sylvia Patricia Choque…

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Liar, my name is Sylvia, nothing more.

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More or less you are my daughter.

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And if you lie I will beat you.

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"Lustrabotas"

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‘Shoeshiners’

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Some men tell us that we should be at home

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but as mothers we have to do this job.

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This job is more dangerous for women than men.

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Men threaten us humiliate us

and discriminate against us.

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Some men insult us.

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But what are we

going to do? Work is work.

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We have to put up with it.

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My name is Cinthia Zaconeta Luna.

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I am 20 years old.

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I have been living on the streets for five years.

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I ended up on the streets because I went looking

for my brother who was living there.

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I met the guys and I started

hanging out with them.

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I stopped going to school.

I had reached eight grade.

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I like shining shoes because sometimes

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I don’t have money to buy food

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But I can get food and other

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Stuff with the money I earn.

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What do you have in your hands?

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This is my poncho for flying.

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To relax?

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Yes

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What is in the bottle?

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It is “liquid flight”.

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It is thinner. It is like thinner.

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How do you use it?

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I moisten the rag

and then I begin to fly.

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Why do you use it?

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Becuase I am used to it.

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This helps you endure hunger and cold.

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I am Ines Flores Obando.

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I have recently started to shine shoes.

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I do tit to pay for my children’s study.

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I have been on the streets since I was 12 years old.

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I have a mother but she doesn’t live here.

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I don’t get along with her.

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 Sometimes the police harass us.

They want to take our children away.

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We dont let them so we fight.

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We don’t respect them.

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They are very bad they take away our money.

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Ines used to be a good girl when

we lived near San Francisco Square.

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She was the best student

in her class in fifth grade.

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‘Theives will be hanged’

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She used to get good marks.

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But then she got involved with

some girls on the street and I lost her.

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I want to help Ines but

we don’t understand each other.

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If I tell her off she gets angry and so do I.

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She ran away from home.

I looked for her but she refused to come back.

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Sometimes she would sleep on the boulevard.

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People would tell me:

“Serafina take your daughter off the streets”

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But she would refuse to come with me.

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Shoeshine sir? Brown cinnanmon colour?

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Damn!

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Shoeshine young man?

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Shoeshine Madame?

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Shoeshine?

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Shoeshine brown colour?

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Damn!

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 Shoeshine brown colour?

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No.

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Damn!

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Who hit you in your eye?

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Who has beaten you up?

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Why is your eye like that?

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Who did it? Tell me.

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Lies.

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Lies.

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Somebody punched you.

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Who did it?

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What about Joel?

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It’s the first time I have seen my nephew like this.

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He usually knows how to defend himself.

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He’s been beaten up.

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His friend has beaten him up for a pair of trainers.

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My son Joel is also on the streets.

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I asked my nephew about him.

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Nobody can find him. I don’t know where he is.

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I cut myself on my face

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Because my boyfirend threatened to beat me if I did not cut my face with glass.

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I cut his face first.

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So he told me:

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“You’ve cut my face, now I want

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you to do the same to yourself”

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You have stolen a mobile phone and now you are going to return it.

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You see Miss I am a shoeshiner.

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Look just return the mobile.

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Just give it back.

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Come with me.

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What happened?

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They are saying that I have stolen a mobile phone.

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That I pick pocketed it but I didn’t.

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They arrested another guy. He is a pick pocket.

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How do you feel now?

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I am afriad they put me in jail.

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We live in that hole right there with my three children.

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We share the hole with other friends.

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We all sleep there very close to each other.

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We cover ourselves with cardboard and plastic

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Because we don’t have money to get something else.

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The whole wall was open but they have closed it.

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We were abe to re-open the hole with a hammer though.

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But the police will not let us sleep here.

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They have banned us.

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Santiago.

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Are you there?

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Did you bathe?

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Did you bathe?

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Wait for me other there.

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I live here.

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This is my homoe, my house where we live.

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Have you cleaned the house?

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I am poor. I have nothing.

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It is a small room for my children.

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I prefer to live like this.

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Of course, I feel sorry for my children.

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I am sorry but at least I have somewhere to sleep and rest with my family.

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I don’t have a kitchen. I don’t have pots or gas. Nothing.

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This is how we live.

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On one bed is Sylvia, Jonathan and him, the three.

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Me and my “enemy” are in the other bed.

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So there it is the five of us.

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Cinthia ended up on the street because nobody looked after her.

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Nobody was there to see if she was attending shool.

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So this is her life.

Her home is the street.

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Vanessa

Cinthia’s sister

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She is used to it.

It’s been almost six years.

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I am the only one

Who supports and talks to her.

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Nobody else in the family really care about her.

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I think doesn't want to change. She is not actually seeking for anything to change.

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We have talked about it and I even tried to convince her by saying things or buying things but… no.

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She is going to remain in the street.

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18 months later

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I will be working in the corner.

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The police were threatening that they would take my kids away.

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So I changed. I stopped living on the streets.

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They wanted to put the kids into an orphanage.

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That is why I changed, for my children.

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Sometimes my children saw me inhaling drugs.

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Now it bothers me. I don’t want my children to see me doing that. Inhaling and being on the street.

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I am happy with the new square but not with the guards.

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They take away the goods we sell.

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That bothers me.

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They have refurbished the square but we are not allowed to sell anything.

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They seize the goods we sell to buy food for our children

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They don’t understand.

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We tell them that we need to sell but they treat us badly.

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I’m Nancy.

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Marlene and Carmen were my sisters.

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My mother and father had diesd.

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Marlene became responsible for the two of us.

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She worked in any job she could find: washerwoman, kitchen assistant

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So she could bring us food.  We ate “Pito”.

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We had food. She was like our mom.

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Once I asked her why she was drunk.

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“becuase I don’t know how to support you”, she said.

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She cried and sobbed asking herself: “why mum and dad are gone?”

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“Why? What am I going to do with you?”

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“I cannot support you”

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I think it was more because of my dad and mom’s absence that she became an alcoholic.

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Marlene was very ill.

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The doctor said her kidneys were in a very bad condition.

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She also had hepatitis.

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Everything was bad.

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I said to her do not drink but she kept doing it.

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I don’t know many sad things happened in her life.

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We went to the doctor and he told her that she had no chance

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Because everything was destroyed inside.

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Marlene Choque died in November 2010

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She was 36.

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Women’s Prison

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Market day

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What happened to Mrs. Marlene could have happened to me.

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Many of my friends have died from inhaling too much thinner.

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I was selling drugs with my brother and the police caught me.

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I was sent to a narcotic prison and then to this jail

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Because I was arrested for the same crime in 2008.

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I got a sentence of five years and six months.  I have already been here for seventeen months

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but I was caught for the same crime before so the lowest sentence they could give me is eight years. \

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The shoeshine boys I used to hang around with would polish shoes to buy drugs and alcohol.

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During the night they were thieves. \

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Life in prision is very different from the streets because out there you can go to places you want, do whatever you want.

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I have thought a lot about my situation. Here I have food and can do my laundry.

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Despite that it hasn’t been a very good experience. It is horrible being here.

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I have reconsidered many things. I don’t do drugs and when I go outside

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I don’t want to do it again because I dont want to return here

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to this prison, to this ugly place.

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It’s been very difficult to forget the drugs.

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Sometimes I was desperate to escape but I couldn’t because the police control here is strict.

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I was eventually able to forget the drugs by doing other activities

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knitting and cooking classes. That’s how I did it.

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I was shoeshining but I had no extra money to buy and sell umbrellas and kleenex

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so I started to work in the laundry with my mother.

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By doing laundry I was able to save some money to buy the merchandise.

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I sell umbrellas when it rains.

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Otherwise I sell kleenex.

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I shoeshine on Saturdays and Sundays.

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With that income I feed my children and myself.

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I was shining shoes with the father of my children when the accident happened to my son.

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I was polishing two clients when my son went away from me

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with my daughter Maria. They went into the church to play.

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The holy water font was unstable.

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My son climbed up onto the font and it fell and hit him on his foot.

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It was hard to see my son in the hospital. I felt sorry for him.

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The cast was heavy and made it difficult to carry him.

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I stuggled walking with him to the hospital.

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If we didn’t have these services

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Vulnerable people wouldn’t have a place to get high quality clinical care.

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We are going to remove the cast not today but Wednesday.

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It is ready to be removed. The bone has healed.

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When Carlos had the accident my relationship with my mum improved a little bit.

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Not that much but we now talk more.

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She has also given me 80 Bolivianos to buy nappies for him.

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I have a son at schoool that I have to support. I am a mother and father to him.

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So I told them that they have to pay me rent and bills. They have to.

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The father of my children doesn’t help me.

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You are the boss here.

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What?

You are the boss here.

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He just shines shoes to buy his drugs and alcohol.

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He never gives me anything. So far nothing.

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I am going to sell.

Ok.

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So miguel doesn’t want to work. He is so lazy.

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He doesn’t want to.

Tell him “Let’s go to sell the two of us”.

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This is your fault. You went back to him.

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He was the one who came back to me.

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You should have said no to him.

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You are the mother of the children.

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So how are we going to sort this out?

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I asked him to pay me 110 bolivianos.

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He still owes me money.

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He owes us 110 Bolivianos.

I want him to pay me now.

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I would like to see Ines Rehabilitaed.

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That she reconsiders her role as a mother and changes everything.

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Sometimes I get annoyed with her.

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She wants to go I tell her go away then.

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Joel must be 13 years old.

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Joel begain to shine shoes when he was a little boy.

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My brother in law made a little box for him

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so he then began to shine shoes.

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He gets high.

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He consumes thinner and gets high.

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Sylvia is with my aunt.

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But I don’t know how she is right now.

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Jonathan and Oliver are in an orphanage.

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I live on the streets.

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I live on the streets with my cousins and my friends.

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Sometimes I polish shoes. I beg for money.

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Sometimes I beg for food as well.

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And sometimes I get high. That’s the truth.

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My name is Joel Choque.

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I used to have a mum but she died.

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She died becuase she drank too much.

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She taught me to shine shoes.

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Shoeshine young man?

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I have been shining shoes for five years.

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When I was a very little boy I used to

shine shoes along with my brothers.

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My sister used to sell sweets.

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Right now I don’t know where they are.

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ROLLING CREDITS

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Produced and Directed by Ann Marie Goodwin

Channel 4 Alpha Fund

All Roads Film Project

World View Broadcast Media Schme

Woolfclub Productions

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