by Mateo Pomilia | Jul, 2020 | Women's issues
We are not all in this together. Sure, we are all experiencing the common disruption that is COVID-19. But some are shouldering the burden more heavily than others. One such group is women in Latin America. Why? Women in Latin America are more likely than men to...
by Mateo Pomilia | Sep, 2019 | Food, General
From planting, to harvesting, to de-shelling, to cooking, to eating, peanut soup is a delicious microcosm of life at a slower pace Food is medicine – it nourishes, it connects, it heals. In rural parts of the Chaco, where people spend most days growing and raising...
by Mateo Pomilia | Feb, 2019 | About, The Chaco
Its dry forests run nearly uninterrupted from the pampas of Argentina to the mighty Amazon. Since time immemorial, The Chaco has been home – first to bands of nomadic hunters known as the Guaycuru, to indigenous groups such as the Guaraní, Chiquitanos, Ayoreos,...
by Mateo Pomilia | Feb, 2019 | About, Women's issues
Educating young women, in particular, confers diverse benefits to society, so much so that female education has been called a “silver bullet” for social progress. Benefits of female education include cultural and climate resilience, health improvement, and poverty...
