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IIn this November 21, 2015 photo, an elderly woman suffering from typhoid is helped off the dirt floor where she had been resting next to a burning fire, and taken into the house to be more comfortable in Potsoteni, an Ashaninka indigenous community in Peru's Junin region. Government officials are trying to encourage good nutrition, distributing books that villagers read by flashlight for lack of electric power. “We're teaching mothers the nutritional value of the foods”, said Luis Contreras of the food program “Qali Warma”, which means “vigorous child” in the Quecha language. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
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