7 images Created 26 Sep 2012
Manila portraits.
Manila, Philippines. Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and psychosocial counseling when needed from qualified psychotherapists.
The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls, who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and abused. The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local school. To protect the girl's identity they have all been photographed partially covering themselves with masks they have made in art therapy. They have all picked their other names; most of the names are from American Idol or of famous Philippine actresses.
The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls, who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and abused. The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local school. To protect the girl's identity they have all been photographed partially covering themselves with masks they have made in art therapy. They have all picked their other names; most of the names are from American Idol or of famous Philippine actresses.