LATIN AMERICA:

Overcoming the Marginalization of Rural Indigenous People

The Hunger Project’s work in Latin America is based on the understanding that the greatest concentrations of hunger and poverty in Latin America are in rural indigenous communities. While all indigenous people are more likely than others to be disadvantaged in Latin America, indigenous women suffer double discrimination — because they are indigenous and because they are women.

We work in three countries of Latin America:

• Bolivia, where we empower the Quechua-speaking people of Southern Bolivia in partnership with ACLO
• Mexico, where we carry out a decentralized, gender-focused empowerment strategy in partnership with local government
• Peru, where we empower indigenous women leaders from all 37 language groups of the country in partnership with Chirapaq

• November 2004: Joan Holmes Keynote Address on Ending Hunger in the Andes
• August 2004: News of our first-ever Latin America Strategy Conference
• August 2004 - Ending Hunger in Latin America - background paper to the strategy conference.