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 Mayapo Ranchería |  |  Fishing is one source of income for residents of Mayapo. |
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 Wayuu children sell hand crafts to weekend beach tourists. |  |  |
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 Olga Uriana has worked as a nurse for 30 years in Mayapo and surrounding Wayuu communities. |  |  Olga rarely has free time; locals come to her house seeking medical care on her days off. |
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 Water for goats is salty, and comes from the well. Fresh water, when available, is reserved for people. |  Olga says water shortages are causing many local health problems including malnutrition, chronic diarrhea and cholera. |  Olga's daughter has 2 sons. She says most local women have at least 6 children, some as many as 13. |
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 |  As a result of the drought, mother goats are too undernourished to produce enough milk to nurse. This baby is bottle-fed. Other babies died. |  Olga's grandson helps care for his cousins. |
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 Franklin, my driver and guide. |  |  |
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 Mayapo pediatric clinic day |  Pediatricians come to Mayapo one day a week. |  Water shortages have caused a spike in malnutrition and infant and child mortality rates. |
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 Children under 5 are especially vulnerable to health complications associated with insufficient and contaminated water supplies. |  |  This Wayuu mother brought her daughter to be treated for chronic diarrhea. |
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 Mother works on a mochilla while she waits for her daughter to see the doctor. |  Olga says it took many years to convince Wayuu mothers to agree to vaccinations. Most children are vaccinated how. |  Many Wayuu mothers don't speak Spanish; there is a need for more Wayuunaike-speaking health care providers. |
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 |  |  Chevron extracts natural gas off Mayapo's shore. The company constructed several wells and a school, and helps fund local medical services. |
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 This school for indigenous Wayuu students opened 5 years ago. |  Girl's dormitory; students sleep on hammocks they hang up at night. |  |
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 School library. |  School nurse. |  |
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 School nurse station. |  |  |
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 |  |  School cafeteria. Students are served 3 meals a day at school. |
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 Shool "Bus" |  These tanks are filled with water shipped in by trucks. |  Chevron installed this desalinization plant in the school, but the pump has been broken for 6 months. |
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 When tank water is gone, students drink salty water. One student told me the the water gives them stomach aches and diarrhea. |  Students wash their laundry here when there is water. |  |
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 Olga's grandson is a student at the Wayuu school. His goal is to become a civil engineer. |
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