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At Caramundo, we work to equip motivated, underprivileged youth in poor urban areas in Latin America with the skills needed to realize their talents and attain economic self-sufficiency.
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In the spring of 2009, Caramundo coordinator and photographer Marloes Verhoeven went to El Salvador to give a photography workshop with youth of our local partner Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl also initiated an artistic project in the Sesuntepeque female prison in San Salvador. Marloes soon was accepted in the cells of the women and had very opening conversations with the women.
‘Adios Tatuajes’ is an photo exhibition Marloes Verhoeven composed from the impressive work done in the clinic of Adios Tatuajes in San Salvador. Young gang members can remove tattoos there that indicate their gang membership. Many poor urban youths become part of the gang in their neighborhood. Once part of the gang, there is no way out and violence and crime will determine their daily lives; a future perspective of either ‘hospital, prison or death’ as one of them puts it.
Each year Vital Voices (Washington D.C.) selects a small group of extraordinary women to recognize for their remarkable achievements advancing women’s leadership around the world. This year, Panmela Castro, a.k.a. Anarkia was nominated for the Global Leadership Award of Human Rights for her leadership and trailblazing work using art as a vehicle to promote positive social change and awareness in her community and around the world.
The women of the workshops on techniques of drawing and painting in the prison of Sesuntepeque had a successful exhibition in fall 2009. During two weeks, all final results of the workshops were shown on a great wall inside the prison. They addressed topics such as peace, love, hope, freedom, friendship and family. A few weeks after, Quetzalcoatl took the chance to also exhibit their work in another prison; the penitentiary centre of Jucuapa.
