Houses in Palmira

The city is 2 inches above sea level. The poorer one is, the more often the house is flooded.

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Photos of clinics/communities in Colombia

September 15th 2008
Photos from our clinics in Colombia (ref: previous blogs). Candelaria and San Cristobal took place in hospitals with quite modern facilities. Palmira is a community of displaced persons whose city sits 2 inches above sea level and most of the town floods when it rains (in the poorer houses, one of my colleagues visited and found peole walking through inches of standing water inside their homes.) ... read more

South America » Colombia » Santa Marta

Colombia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Ecuador and Venezuela). A 40-year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Colombian Government escalated during the 1990s, undergirded in part... ... read more

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