While poverty across Colombia decreased between July 2014 and June 2015 , poverty in the country’s poorest province, Choco, grew more prevalent according to the national statistics agency.
At least 294 children have died from malnutrition in the La Guajira province on Colombia’s Caribbean coast over the past eight years, President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Monday.
In the northern Colombian region of La Guajira — where 83.7% of the population live without clean water and 9 out of 10 in poverty — aid measures are underway to…
Some 4.4 million Colombians, or 9.2% of the population, rose out of poverty between 2009 and 2014, according to President Juan Manuel Santos.
Colombia’s government revealed plans on Thursday to confront the extreme poverty that has been killing children in the Pacific west of the country.
A frustrated mayor of one the poorest towns in Colombia has reportedly become tired of begging for a budget from the national government and has taken to giving away his own…
Four to five children die of malnutrition every week in Colombia, the country’s National Health Institute (INS) said Monday.
A recent study shows that 10% of Colombian families live on less than $1.25 per day.
When General Ruben Dario Alzate stepped off a boat on the Atrato River into the hands of FARC rebels, he managed to bring the country’s attention to one of Colombia’s…