Warao chil­dren in Trinidad’s south­west­ern penin­su­la are liv­ing in squalor, run­ning bare­foot along the beach, their tiny feet cov­ered in blis­ters and sores.

None are en­rolled in school, and the old­er ones over the age of ten help their par­ents with work in the small fish­ing huts near the coast. Oth­ers play in the aban­doned co­conut es­tates on the coast.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Ica­cos, some of the chil­dren were play­ing in the sand. Oth­ers were seen play­ing on the float­ing door of an old fridge in the wa­ters of the beach.