Displacement & Poverty

Colombia is undergoing its second humanitarian crisis of displacement greatest violence the world after Congo and the worst crisis of the West as the UN. Since 1985, displacement has affected the country. Today, several studies confirm that 3 million people are displaced. The challenges "there are many: 3 million people are displaced by violence, 2.5 million of which are children who do not attend school..." Shakira.

The unequal distribution of income adversely affects human development. In the past 14 years the rate has increased inequality in the country, it went from 0.544 to 0.563. Therefore, it is estimated that the accumulated income of 80% of the population is less than the total income of the richest population, which is 10%.

In a 2007 report by ECLAC, they show that in Colombia today: 42.6 of poverty and 12% are homeless. This 54.6% is considered mostly comprised of children who are torn between malnutrition, ignorance and poor health. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) defines it as poor living in which a family that is held with less than two minimum wages as an indigent who cannot sustain the basic daily caloric needs. Thus, Colombia cannot keep their word to reduce the goal of 28% of poverty or 9% of homelessness.

In each of the three geographical areas where the Foundation develops its programs are having the same problem: families made up on average by 6 displaced people arriving in a city, which is the case in Cazucá, Soacha, neighboring municipalities to swell the slums. In many of them, there are few alternatives for livelihood, the loss of nutritional quality and increased chronic malnutrition.