PROJECTS: The Hinterland: sertao_07-20150621sertao1166

Campo Alegre de Lourdes, Brazil. Tuesday, July 21, 2015.Goats and motorcyles pass by each other in a village near Campo Alegre de Lourdes, where residents here work with community-based non-profit, Sasop, which taught them food security during drought periods.One family said that the drought now is as a bad as it was in 1982 where people and animals were both dying. Today (2015), they are more autonomous because of what they’ve learned to live with drought. When water quality improved so did infant mortality. They no longer drink water from the ground. Ten years ago the children here did not know vegetables. Only the very basics like, onion, cilantro and fruits.

Campo Alegre de Lourdes, Brazil. Tuesday, July 21, 2015.

Goats and motorcyles pass by each other in a village near Campo Alegre de Lourdes, where residents here work with community-based non-profit, Sasop, which taught them food security during drought periods.

One family said that the drought now is as a bad as it was in 1982 where people and animals were both dying. Today (2015), they are more autonomous because of what they’ve learned to live with drought. When water quality improved so did infant mortality. They no longer drink water from the ground. Ten years ago the children here did not know vegetables. Only the very basics like, onion, cilantro and fruits.