Update to the Global Board (October 2008). Working with the indigenous peoples in Chiapas and Oaxaca, The Hunger Project has gained significant momentum in local mobilization.
Update to the Global Board (October 2008). Despite ongoing social unrest and periods of violence, ACLO forges ahead in its programmatic achievements, including the completion of the first cycle of a three-year project to create a cadre of rural and indigenous leaders with advanced skills.
Update to the Global Board (October 2008). Despite the many challenges they faced in 2008, Chirapaq achieved significant advances in empowering indigenous women to be willing and able to protect their individual and collective rights through training, communication and collective action.
The Hunger Project’s work in Latin America focuses on rural and indigenous communities, where there is the greatest concentration of hunger and poverty.
Peru is the fourth most populous country in South America with a total population of 28.5 million, 48 percent of which are indigenous. The Hunger Project works in partnership with Chirapaq (Center for Indigenous Peoples' Cultures of Peru), an organization founded by both Andean and Amazonian people.
Though the 12th largest economy in the world, Mexico faces high levels of poverty in rural areas and states with large indigenous populations. Within the estimated 25.2 million people in rural Mexico, 57 percent live in poverty and 28 percent live in extreme poverty. The Hunger Project has been active in Mexico since 1983. We carry out a gender-focused capacity building strategy in rural municipios in four states.
Bolivia is the most isolated and poorest country in South America. Indigenous groups, mainly Quechuas and Aymaras, make up 62 percent of Bolivia's population. In Bolivia, The Hunger Project works in partnership with Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) to empower indigenous communities to be active participants within Bolivian society.
