Wayuu mochilas: Bags for life in La Guajira

Here's how one NGO is helping communities in La Guajira make and sell mochilas. Mochila sales can make a difference to communities in La Guajira....

Santos to deal with food crisis

[caption id="attachment_17419" align="aligncenter" width="960"] 13.2% of children in Colombia are malnourished, but in La Guajira that figure stands...

Desalination: well worth its salt

[caption id="attachment_14841" align="alignnone" width="960"] Villagers and members of Heliosyst work together to dig a well.[/caption] With La...

Top stories of 2015: Child Mortality in La Guajira – The Shame of the Nation

Mike Mackenna explains why, since at least 2008, thousands of children have died from preventable causes in the coastal department of La...

Desert Tripping

[caption id="attachment_8625" align="aligncenter" width="960"] El Pilón de Azúcar at Cabo de La Vela. Photo: Eric Bauer[/caption] Oli Pritchard...

Fear and Loathing in Cabo

[caption id="attachment_3426" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Not an appealing place to brake down Photo: Charlotte Ryan[/caption] Charlotte Ryan...