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release on women and children in Guatemala.
GUATEMALA HIGHLANDS - WOMAN TO WOMAN
SUPPORT BEYOND GENOCIDE, POVERTY,
HUNGER
The Indigenous Ixil women of the Guatemala Highlands
share stories and talk about their lives - ©MADRE
August 28, 2009
On a recent worktrip to Guatemala, MADRE
Executive Director Vivian Stromberg and Program Coordinator Natalia Caruso
visited our sister organization, Muixil.
Muixil is a group of 350 Indigenous Ixil women living in the highlands of
Guatemala. In the 1980s, the highlands were the epicenter of a genocide against
Indigenous Peoples.
Today, our partners at Muixil are working to rebuild their families and
communities and creating solutions to entrenched poverty and hunger. MADRE is
working with the women on a sustainable pig farming project so that they can
feed their families and earn income from the sale of pigs.
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32027&Cr=guatemala&Cr1=
UN News Centre - Link to Full Article
GUATEMALA - HUNGER CRISIS DRAWS MOUNTING
CONCERN FROM UN AGENCY
11 September 2009 –
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today voiced her deep
concern about the hunger crisis gripping much of Guatemala, where a combination
of the global economic crisis, high food prices, a drop in remittances, harsh
weather and poverty has left thousands of people struggling to find food.
Josette Sheeran, the Executive Director of WFP,
described the situation in Guatemala – where the President recently announced a
state of emergency because of the severe food shortages – as desperate.
“Women and children have been caught in the vortex of
this hunger crisis and are in a desperate struggle for survival,” she said,
according to a statement issued by the agency.
Almost half of all Guatemalan children under the age of
five suffer from stunting as a result of chronic under-nutrition. The numbers
of children being admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition has also tripled
in recent months............
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