78,085 indigenous Ecuadorian children under 5 suffer chronic malnutrition – Rebelion

In Ecuador, 34.5 per cent of indigenous children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to data from the National Survey on Malnutrition. A thin rain falls on Pisambilla, an indigenous community located in the Cayambe moor, in the northern mountains of Ecuador. Rosa Lanchimba walks among the fog, along with her four children. The youngest, John, three years old, collects spinach in a small family garden. “This is the…