Nino, a student in the fourth grade, thought of her new, neighborhood as a sort of dream town, although she wished it was more colorful, preferable in pink, red, and blue.

Nino, who sleeps with her little sister, wants to have her own room, where she could paint and do her homework without her twin brothers disturbing her. She helps her brothers and sister with their homework, or they play make-believe games in which she is a teacher and her siblings are her pupils.

“I also love sports, but you see how it is when it rains here: [there are] mud waterfalls and mother won’t let us go outside,” she says glancing sadly at the pouring rain outside.

Nino’s house is just like almost every one of the 3,000 huts in the “dream town” -just a tiny, hand-constructed booth made of wood and cardboard. Families barely manage to properly cover their roofs, and the roofs leak every time it rains.