Guatemala, Multi-Partner Alliance Wages War on Hunger

“Now I get supplies to feed my children, and I have a family garden where I grow carrots, onions and beets,” Marta Quinilla, a native of Uspantán, an area northwest of the Guatemalan capital that was devastated by the 36-year civil war, says cheerfully.

This Quiché Maya indigenous woman belongs to one of 10,250 families benefiting from the Maya Food Security Programme, a multisectorial initiative combating chronic malnutrition in the municipalities of Sacapulas, Cunén, Nebaj, Cotzal, Chajul and Uspantán in the department (province) of Quiché. Read Article