so, i was thinking this the other day, while i was riding my bike in the mountains.
The Andes are scattered of small villages (sometimes as small as 4-5 families together), where roads are non-existant, who live of their cattle and subsistance farming. Over the couse of a 20 mile downhill run, I sometimes come across 1 or 2 groups of semi-nomadic families, who live of subsistance farming.
Unsurpringly, people do not have access to education, health or any gvmt benefit or assistance. Same thing for markets for their products, as access to these communities is very complicated, and building dependable roads isnt economically feasible for the most part. A huge part of the people in abject poverty in Andean countries is made by the millions of people living in these conditions.
To fight poverty effectively, it would require to aglomerate this small villages into bigger communities, where schools and medical outposts could be more efficiently built.
Now, this would mean the end of a culture, language and way of life which has been around longer than the concept of Peru, Bolivia or Ecuador as countries. It seems mainteining this culture and identity is mutually exclusive from affordable education and healthcare..
Obviously. it isnt economically feasible to build and support roads, and a school and medical outpost for each of this small villages.
what is the solution to this poverty???
The Andes are scattered of small villages (sometimes as small as 4-5 families together), where roads are non-existant, who live of their cattle and subsistance farming. Over the couse of a 20 mile downhill run, I sometimes come across 1 or 2 groups of semi-nomadic families, who live of subsistance farming.
Unsurpringly, people do not have access to education, health or any gvmt benefit or assistance. Same thing for markets for their products, as access to these communities is very complicated, and building dependable roads isnt economically feasible for the most part. A huge part of the people in abject poverty in Andean countries is made by the millions of people living in these conditions.
To fight poverty effectively, it would require to aglomerate this small villages into bigger communities, where schools and medical outposts could be more efficiently built.
Now, this would mean the end of a culture, language and way of life which has been around longer than the concept of Peru, Bolivia or Ecuador as countries. It seems mainteining this culture and identity is mutually exclusive from affordable education and healthcare..
Obviously. it isnt economically feasible to build and support roads, and a school and medical outpost for each of this small villages.
what is the solution to this poverty???
