Children's experiences

Photographer Tim Hetherington

These pages are devoted to children's responses to the Young Lives project.

Snapshots from Peru

• How do the Young Lives children in Peru live?
• What are their dreams?

These were the questions posed by BBC Mundo journalists, Ana Lucia Gonzalez and Carolina Robino, when they visited Peru in February 2004. Ana Lucia and Carolina worked with children in Huaraz and Huaycan in Peru, encouraging them to tell us about their lives by taking photographs... the result is a series of audio and visual diaries that provide an insight into these children's hopes and reality.

Read more about this joint Young Lives-BBC initiative in Spanish and English.

• See and hear the children's diaries in Spanish
• See the picture galleries in English
• See and hear what the children had to say (requires Flash Player)

Short stories from Ethiopia

Here are some of the winning entries from a short story competition held in Ethiopia. The theme was 'Growing up in Poverty'.

• Fighting against Ignorance by Askale Giday
• Fighting Poverty by Tigist Challa
• A Working Childhood by Zenebu Belete

For more details about the competition see the News page.