DIANA'S STORY

Featuring: Diana Guevara

Youth Filmmakers: Deivi Ariel Lorenzana, Juan Carlos Maldonado, Carlos Bucu, Francisco Cifuentes, Diana Cabrera

Adult mentors: Walter Cruz Pivaral, Ana Ines Carpio, Rafael Gonzales, Sergio Donis

It's easy to say Diana Guevara shouldn't have hung out with the gang members who controlled her impoverished barrio on the outskirts of Guatemala City. However, immense poverty and lack of opportunities bred loneliness and despair and gangs seemed to provide the only available safety net. Sadly, Diana paid a high price for her involvement, exacted by her fellow gang members. It is moving past that tragedy that has helped Diana develop her inner strength and create alliances that truly break her isolation.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• listen up!
• gangs
• isolation
• Guatemala City
• youth
• Beyond
• Borders

[ptricky15]

Loneliness and poverty = murder, rape, robbery...bull shit. I guess all it takes is a worthless sociology degree to convince people that they've solved the problem of people choosing to be evil. Everyone knows that people are born innocent and good but it is no less obvious that people CHOOSE to be evil. I know people can change, and I think it's great, but it does absolutely no good to give them half ass excuses for what they do or have done.

[prept77]

Hot damn man, This is so messed up.

[EDWIN502]

quien canta la primera cancion?