Potosi, Bolivia.
The Benabides family home. When their father, a miner, died 5 years ago of silicosis, five children live with their mother in this one room, two bed house. They sleep three to a bed. Lucas, 12 shares a bed with his younger sister Gladys, 6, and his mother Alberta. Lucas and his older brother Marco, 16, work in the mines to help his family make ends meet.