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The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child 2005:
Ana María Marañon de Bohorquez
Ana Maria and Fernando
Ana María Marañon de Bohorquez gives Fernando a hug. He was born on the street, the son of drug addicts, and started sniffing glue when he was two.

Ana María took care of Fernando when he was four and since then he's been living at her home for street children, El Arca de Rescate de los Niños (The Children's Rescue Ark).

> Meet Ana María
Why has Ana María been awarded?
Ana María Marañon de Bohorquez received The World's Children's Honorary Award because she has worked selflessly for many years for the street children in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Many children in Bolivia have parents who were once street children themselves. With street life comes violence and drugs. Most of the children sniff glue to help them forget the harsh and loveless world that surrounds them. But Ana María is determined to give the children a chance in life. She has one home for boys, El Arca, and one for girls, Rosa de Sarón. Here the children live with adults, who give them love and security. They can go to school and then learn a profession.
Portait Fernando
Fernando was born on the streets. His father gave him glue to sniff when he was two and raised him to become a thief. A life like that is hard to give up. After he stole from El Arca, Fernando is given one last chance.

> Meet Fernando
A spinning top that the children are playing with
Edson is playing with his spinning top. You wind the string around the top, whip it away and off it spins.

> To the spinning tops
Portait Maria
Mamita! Mamita!'
María throws herself around Ana María, who's hardly stepped through the gate of Rosa de Sarón before the girls come running from all directions.

> Meet María



Jhovana and her daughter Solveig

Jhovana never had a childhood. She was four when she became an orphan. She started sniffing glue at ten and gave birth to her first child in the street at eleven. She wants to change her life but sometimes lacks the strength.

> Meet Jhovana

Learn to speak Quechua
Although Spanish is the national language of Bolivia, only two-thirds of the population speak it. Outside the big cities, most people speak one of the three native languages: Quechua, Aymara or Guarani. Quechua was the language of the Incas, but it still survives in the Cochabamba region.

> Learn Quechua


 

The birthday cake to the birthday party
It's mid-morning at El Arca and 10-year old Bryan and his friends are hanging balloons and paper-chains from the ceiling. The smell of roasted peanuts and popcorn wafts from the kitchen. Bryan is excited - a birthday party at last!

> To the birthday party
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