You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
- Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
In May of this year, the National Civil Police of El Salvador reported that in the first quarter of 2016 224 children were killed in the country--a 105% increase from the first quarter last year. Of the 6,657 murders that occurred in the nation of just over six million people in 2015, 651 were children.