THE IRON STEPS
Social workers in Peru go a long way to reach small communities and dialogue with people. Many times these workers work for the state, carrying out censuses of nutrition, hygiene habits, even anthropometry. In other cases, they are contracted with consultancies that mediate agreements between extracting companies and indigenous communities. Depending on the resources of the institutions to which they belong and the ease of access to each community, they can spend hours walking from one small house to another in the middle of the mountains. Some unfortunate times only to find an empty dwelling. In one way or another, anthropologists, sociologists, nutritionists and other professionals are the strongest bridge we have with a reality that modernity ignores due to vice or conviction.
This is a small tour in the footsteps of two professionals in 3 remote communities of the Ancash Province in Lima.