Turning Rescued Food Into a Lifeline in Colombia’s La Guajira
Food banks are working with Indigenous communities to fight malnutrition in one of the country’s most remote regions.
This article is adapted from AQ's special report on food security in Latin America. To see other organizations working on this issue, click here. The Guajira Peninsula is an isolated desert plateau that straddles the Colombia-Venezuela border and drops precipitously into the Caribbean. It is the homeland of more than 200,000 Wayúu people, Colombia’s largest Indigenous group, who for generations have faced displacement and marginalization on the rugged landscape. Their communities are especially vulnerable to food insecurity; on Colombia’s side of La Guajira, periodic water...
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