Clean Water and 2,560 monthly meals for children in La Guajira
La Guajira is one of Colombia’s most vulnerable regions, where food insecurity and lack of clean water have historically placed Indigenous Wayuu communities at extreme risk. Over an eight-year period, 4,770 children died from malnutrition, and many public schools failed to provide daily meals, leaving children without consistent access to food, water, healthcare, and education, fundamental rights essential for life and development.
In response to this crisis, our foundation provided 2,560 meals each month to 128 children at the Amuyuwou School in Punta Coco and delivered 20,000 liters of clean drinking water monthly for 2 years to more than 350 people in the community of Los Cocos. All food and water deliveries were carried out in close coordination with Wayuu community leader Mauren Aguilar, ensuring transparency, cultural respect, and direct impact. Through these efforts, we witnessed meaningful improvements in children’s health, including weight gain and overall well-being.
As a foundation committed to empowering communities rather than replacing state responsibility, we concluded this program once the Colombian government began fulfilling its legal obligations, including the provision of food and clean water to the community. Our decision reflects our mission to support urgent humanitarian needs while advocating for long-term, systemic solutions that protect dignity, sustainability, and the fundamental rights of the Wayuu people.
Saving Lives One drop at a time
Serving Lives
4,770 children have died from malnutrition in la Guajira in a span of 8 years, public schools in the region are not providing meals for the children who struggle to even eat once per day. We have been providing 2,560 meals every month for 128 children of the school Amuyuwou in Punta Coco. Our organization is committed to protecting the fundamental rights to The right to life, survival and development health, education and healthcare of our children.
Once we receive the donations we proceed to purchase the food in the supermarket Grupo Gran Colombia in Uribia, the Wayuu leader of the community Mauren Aguilar crosschecks the receipt with the items purchased and transports them to the port of Uribia, where we load the donations on a small boat for a 2 hour journey until we reach the improvised port of the community of Los Cocos. We make our way to the school where we store all the donations for the month.
One of out biggest accomplishments is seeing our children look healthier as the months go by and their weight increases.
La Guajira is a vulnerable region in Colombia where water is scarce, people of la Guajira at the northern tip of south America resisted European conquest and the Guajiro (Wayuu) forged a unique identity. The indigenous community in the region has suffered displacement, violence, food insecurity, lack of clean water, and other pressing issues for centuries.
Lack of reliable access to safe drinking water is a significant challenge the community of Los Cocos faces every day. This issue directly affects the daily lives of the population, especially children. We started working alongside the Wayuu community leader Mauren Aguilar and the rest of the people to develop a project that aims to restore the dignity, fundamental human rights and quality of life of the community of Los Cocos.
Our initiative will focus on implementing sustainable short term and long-term measures that guarantee the fundamental rights to life and health of the population. We have been delivering 20,000 liters of clean drinking water to over 350 people and their children every month, to do so we have to drive 2 water trucks for over 4 hours through the dessert facing extreme weather conditions, once we arrive to the village we travel from house-to-house filling water tanks for the families and the water tank at the village’s school.
In Partnership with Bochika we are developing solutions to lack of water in the region, alongside different experts we are studying long term options for sustainable solutions for the Wayuu people of Los Cocos. Our objective is to create partnerships with different organizations to bring diverse forms of humanitarian aid to the region.