In the winter of 2012, Spencer Reece, an award winning American poet and Episcopal priest, came to live at the home for a year. "Voices Beyond the Wall" explores the question: how do those subjected to profoundest trauma and rejection begin to heal themselves and change the course of their lives? It bears witness to the catharsis that occurs when marginalized adolescent girls are encouraged to find their voices, in poetry and their own words. (a slang word for orphans- also used for ‘disposable containers’). Inside twenty foot high concrete walls topped with barb wire, they receive medical attention, food, shelter, and the nurturing care of a vibrant and entirely female collective of other “Desechables”. Seventy girls, ages 1-18, have found refuge there from broken and destitute homes, murderous streets, and the neighboring Bordo, the worst slum in the Americas. VOICES BEYOND THE WALL TWELVE LOVE POEMS FROM THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLDįounded twenty-five years ago in San Pedro Sula, a Central American city infamous for its poverty and violence, Our Little Roses is the only girls’ orphanage in Honduras.
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