Shanon, 16. (Not her real name).She is happy to be in the home for the protection it gives and for the hope it has brought back to her. She loves reading and to dance, listening to music and play the guitar. She has choreographed many of the dance performances the girls do in the home to great applause by the audience. She wants to be Video Jockey(VJ) to help the other children in the home. She wants to work in TV as a place to highlight the issues and lives the children go through..."The curly gold on the left side of the mask signifies all the positive things which have happened in my life. The mixed colours all the confusion and problems which are happening in my life which at the moment are overpowering my life. I hope some day it will be different, that it will be the other way around. ..Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with sisters from the Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and counselling 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 sexually abused.The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local municipality.
