Gallery from Argentina & Paraguay
Friday, February 12, 2010
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The Mbya Guarani people have recovered 1000 hectares of land, illegally snatched by farmers of genetically modified soybeans. The Mbya Guarani receive help with sustainable agriculture, education and lands rights with support from Oguasu Ecumenical Foundation. The Foundation is part of Iglesia Evangélica del Río de la Plata, IERP. Photo: Katharina Lenz y Stephan Lindner/IERP/ACT.
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Qom Toba children from the Chaco forests in the north with their herd of goats. Families are learning to breed goats, thanks to help from the JUM Foundation, associated to ACT member IERP. JUM is helping the vulnerable Qom Toba people to stay in their homelands, rather than move to city slums where many endure a life scavenging on rubbish dumps. Photo: Andreas Abelein y Tobias Mönch/IERP/ACT
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Illegal logging is a big problem in the forests of Chaco in the North – where the tribal Qom Toba people live. These loggers were stopped in their tracks when JUM Foundation workers alerted the police and camped in the clearing to stop the timber being stolen. The Qom Toba rely on the forest for food and herbal remedies. Photo: Andreas Abelein y Tobias Mönch/IERP/ACT.
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A rubbish collector from Itati, one of Buenos Aires’ largest slums. He travels with his horse and cart through richer neighbourhoods to collect rubbish and sell sorted recyclable materials like cardboard. Itati is a stretch of dirt– stuck between a main road and a railway line – where about 50,000 people live by a sewage pond. There’s no drinking water or electricity. This man is linked to a recycling project run by the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights (MEDH). MEDH is part of Iglesia Evangélica de Río de la Plata, an ACT Alliance member. Photo: Jan Fliessbach/IERP/ACT
