Children of the Guatemala City Dump

Before Switching his focus to Kari Engen's work in the Guatemala city dump, filmmaker John Biffar had been in Guatemala to film...

• Slums in the area

• The Presidential Election

• Gang Violence

• Babies with Malnutrution

Guatemala has ____% of the natural resources in Central America, yet 85% of the population lives in poverty.

• 5%

• 7%

• 80%

• 8%

___% of the population owns 80% of the land.

• 2%

• 20%

• 50%

• 80%

What are the three main things that residents of the dump do to survive?

• thieves

• prostitutes

• greenhouse farming

• glue sniffers

What were houses in the dump made of?

• plastic

• brick

• cardboard

• bamboo

Due to Guatemala's civil war, more than ____ children live in the dump.

• 4,000

• 3,000

• 1,000

• 2,000

More than half of Guatemala's population of 10 million people live in _______________.

• Cancun

• Matamoros, Mexico

• San Francisco

• Guatemala City

Why do some of the people in the dump sniff glue?

• to escape their reality

• to release their anger

• it makes them laugh funny

• to get rid of hunger pains

____ generations of people had lived in the dump when they were filming the documentary.

• 8

• 2

• 4

• 3

One man was asked if he wanted to leave he dump. He said he wanted to move anywhere he could go outside the dump, but stayed because ____.

• his family is there

• he's addicted to the glue

• he likes the school

• he is partial to the cuisine