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GUATEMALA - CLIMATE CHANGE, NATURAL DISASTERS, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, HUNGER, WOMEN & GIRLS

 

Full Article: July 28, 2010 - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ips/73b7489bb3c5811e3734645b9e9885cb.htm

 

Just under 50 percent of children in Guatemala are malnourished, the highest rate in Latin America and one of the highest in the world, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

 

Climate change is exacerbating the conditions of poverty and extreme poverty in the country, and above all is complicating the lives of the most vulnerable," Carlos Mancilla, head of the Climate Change Unit at the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (MARN), told IPS.

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Sarah Bones - International Photojournalist - sbonespa@comcast.net

 

GUATEMALA - PHOTO OF YOUNG MOTHER & CHILD

 

 

 

 

 





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