A brood of chickens cluck in the barn as Rebeca Perez collects eggs to sell in her village in western Guatemala — an endeavor she hopes will keep her from emigrating to the United States as her brothers did, driven by poverty.
Many of her neighbors in the Mayan settlement of Santa Maria Nebaj have left, but the single mother of two children aged eight and 11 is intent on providing for her family with her feathery flock.