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NameReinaldo
Gendermale
Country of OriginColombia
Destination CountryColombia
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In response to the increasingly burning droughts and seeking better living conditions for himself and his family, Reinaldo migrated from Colombia to Venezuela 10 years ago. At first, he found there good employment and study opportunities for his son and his nephew. But some years later Reinaldo took the decision to go back to his ancestral territory where his family, like hundreds of families from the Guajira region, is suffering from the climate change´s harsh consequences that have devastated all their livelihoods. This prolonged drought has left nothing but death in its wake and submission of an entire people that always lived independently, but that request government subsidies nowadays. I remember that my grandmother and my mother had everything they needed, it used to rain every three months in the region, if the middle lands dried, it rained again and our crops produced enough. At any time we had corn, yucca, and all kinds of plants stocks. But today there is no abundance any more, everything depends on money. If there is no money, there is no food. Also, the children of the family who lived and studied in Venezuela, dream of a better future, away from climate change´s consequences. Despite this hostile environment, Reinaldo claims that even if we suffer because of many issues here such as the drought, it is here where I feel calm. Reinaldo concludes that its purpose is not that communities request government aid: We are willing to sow, we are sowers and shepherds; what we need is water and that is enough for us to defend our people. The solution for everything is water.

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