The following excerpt is from an April 8, 2010 article published by Relief Web. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
Sustained drought, soaring food prices and a sharp drop in money from relatives working abroad have left many thousands of Guatemalan families struggling to feed themselves. The Ramos family are among those hit hard. Their baby girl is starting to show the effects of malnutrition.
GUATEMALA CITY – The Ramos family, who live in the village of Tecuiz San Agustín Acasaguastlán, are struggling on the edge of survival with no work and not enough to eat. Lázaro, 32, and his wife Maria Luisa, 28, have seven children, one of them a newborn baby girl.
“I have not been able to find any job as a day labourer for some time. We don’t have any money and can’t buy any food,” said Lázaro, whose village is in the ‘dry corridor’ in Guatemala’s eastern-central region.
Even if Lázaro could afford seeds, the drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon has also made it impossible for him to plant crops to feed his family.
Hunger in Guatemala…
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