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Cotahuasi Community |
Cotahuasi Canyon is one of the poorest highland regions of Southern Peru. Kindness Connection provides medical attention and nutritional support to the local communities within this Canyon Region.
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Alcohol boxes behind a local home. Alcoholism is one of the biggest problems in the highland regions.
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Extreme poverty in the highlands of Cotahuasi. This mother suffers from alcoholism, and her child is two years old, yet weighs only 11 pounds due to the extreme poverty in which the family lives.
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Due to the great distances between towns in the Canyon Region, many children do not attend school, but instead work in the fields harvesting crops.
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A typical kitchen in a Cotahuasi home. There is no running water nor electricity, so food is cooked over a fire.
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Typical homes in the Canyon Region. Most are the size of a small bathroom in the United States.
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The typical diet consists of 4main foods: corn, potatoes, beans and barley.
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Most families live off of the food the are able to harvest in their fields. This bag of potatoes must last the family all year long until next year's harvest. The family will put the potatoes on their rooftop for several weeks. The cold canyon temperatures act to freeze-dry the potatoes so they will last all year.
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The families dry their corn and then use a stone such as this one to grind it up. It will then be mixed with water and eaten. Most families eat one meal a day, usually consisting of ground corn and water, beans and possibly a potato.
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