Dangerously Poor
Exploring the Links Between Poverty and Disability
With his limbs twisted and crippled since birth, Reynaldo Reyes, 15, waits in a Honduran stream for his mother to bathe him after she washes laundry downstream to earn money for the family. Maria Reyes says she pushes Reynaldo with a laundry basket tied to his wheelchair for two miles over rocky roads and embankments because she fears leaving him home alone. She says of the dog, "That is Reynaldo's best friend. They are together every day, and they are never apart."
