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Paraguay
In the early evening light, the boys are still brimming with energy as they leave the football field and go searching for new adventures. A familiar scene that's played out all over the world.
Except here there's no rush hour traffic to watch out for, no roads to cross - and no curfew, until it's too dark to see. For these are the children of Paraguay's indigenous Maka Tribe.
In landlocked Paraguay, population growth and forest clearances have forced many families into shanty towns on the outskirts of Asuncion, where corruption is rampant and few people live above the poverty line.
But the Maka reservation, eleven miles out, is like a Garden of Eden. The tribe of 6oo families settled here in 1985, driven south by the great flood of the Paraguay River.
Tribal loyalty is everything. Growing up, like their parents, to be farmers and craftsmen, these children will spend their entire lives on these 22 acres, with the same families and friends.
For Tsalikin, Chelo, Meyentin, Teetsikin, Sitqokin and Yequitis (pictured), this evening seems to stretch out forever.