Hunger haunts the jungle home of the Ashaninka.
Incursions
and assaults by loggers, miners, colonists and Shining Path rebels have
reduced the lands of the Ashaninka people in the Peruvian Amazon,
leaving many of the 97,000 members of the group malnourished.
The problem may be worst among children.
In a simpler time, all a child or an adult needed to enjoy the outdoors
was a ball and a stick. Or maybe an old tire tied to a high branch to
fashion a swing. And the only instruction given to children was to be
home before dark.
