Substitute Families for Abandoned Children hope for ‘family-based care’ over ‘institutional care’ for these children. Eighty per cent of orphaned or abandoned children have at least one parent alive or have extended family. In order to maintain the child’s sense of ‘roots’, SFAC’s first wish is to see children rehabilitated back into their families where possible and appropriate. Where that isn’t an option, they are placed with responsible local ‘substitute’ families, trained and supported by SFAC through every step.
Thanks to a sympathetic neighbour, Marina found herself in a new family when she had none. As a result, her life was transformed and she became the woman you have read about. She may not have been alive today to tell her story had she not found a substitute family.
Please contact SFAC and you too could rescue girls like Marina all around the world. www.sfac.org.uk/
Neotropical Primate Conservation (NPC)
In far too many places around the world, our nearest biological relatives, the apes and monkeys, are suffering, losing their homes and their lives as a result of deforestation and wildlife trafficking.
In Colombia, as well as all Central and South America, NPC strives to protect monkeys and conserve their homes. In protecting the jungles and forests, the habitats are maintained not just for monkeys but also for the indigenous peoples, so that they too can maintain their traditional and cultural ways of life.
The battle against illegal wildlife traffic has become one of NPC’s main activities. Wild animals are routinely hunted for meat or skins, as trophies or for the pet trade — a major threat to the survival of many species. With the help of rescue centres and the police, NPC are able to rescue, rehabilitate and reintroduce these trafficked animals back to their forests — the homes that Marina knew so well.
Please learn how you can be a part of their wonderful work at www.neoprimate.org
Thank you.
The exterior of Ana-Karmen’s brothel. (© Daniel James)
Park in Cúcuta — Marina’s home as a street kid. (© Daniel James)
Marina’s nickname on the streets, ‘Pony Malta’, was due to her resemblance to the short, dark drink bottle. (© Daniel James)
Viewing Cúcuta from Loma de Bolívar. (© Daniel James)
The Cúcuta bridge that exploded near the Santos family home, now rebuilt. (© Daniel James)
The exterior of La Casita convent. (© Daniel James)
Meeting the convent nuns during a research trip to Colombia in 2007. (© Daniel James)
Maruja (Marina’s rescuer) as Marina remembers her.
Marina’s earliest known photograph, aged 17. Now named Luz Marina.
Amadeo and Maria Nelly Forero.
Marina at home in a tree-trunk hole, like those in which she would find a bed during her jungle days. (© John Chapman)
The wild child in her natural habitat. (© John Chapman)
Marina aged 62. A day out in the countryside often involves some interaction with nature and wild animals. (© John Chapman)
Family portrait. (© Carl Bromwich)
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