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- One of several human rights workshops that were held in the Kogi community.
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- Bernabe, a third-grade boy, shows his homework.
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- Kogi Christian children share songs at school.
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- Margarita (no last name given), the kindergarten and first-grade teacher, stands in the doorway of her classroom. She is one of three teachers in the community.
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- The Christian Kogi live on a mountain range, and it can take two to five hours to walk to their community. This is a typical Kogi home.
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- Outside of Santa Marta, Colombia, a man walks across the footbridge to the path that will take him to the Kogi community, which isn’t accessible by car.
Descendants of a pre-Colombian indigenous group, the Kogi of Colombia have lived atop the world’s highest coastal range for millennia. Of the approximately 20,000 Kogi, nearly 200 are Christian. Others follow indigenous traditional religious practices. The Christian Kogi live on three contiguous farms, where they raise their own food and have their K-8 school. Their farms, purchased in part with grants from ELCA World Hunger, are fertile and productive. Companions from the ELCA and Colombia walk alongside the new church as it reaches out to provide health care and education. (Photos/Mary Campbell/ELCA)
