Children Having Children in the Ngobe Village of Salt Creek

 The classroom empty for the afternoon a the children care for siblings at home. A girl may have her first when she is twelve as Saulita did.
  Saulita is now pregnant again and can barely lift her nine-month-old baby lying in his hammock. He weighs about 36 lbs, has no toys but stares at the ceiling all day.
 
 A toddler herself gladly carries her baby brother. Their mother may be a half mile away. The village on Isla Bastimentos has no crime, spreads along a single weaving sidewalk that continues to cross the island to the beach on the Caribbean. The huts that house over a thousand people pepper the hillside and rain forest along the way. There is only one tiny tiende, a church and a single classroom. All were closed on the afternoon while we were there.