Project with Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation

The 2-year SAIL project incorporates traditional and Western medicine practices as a culturally adapted intervention for the Wayuu population.

This initiative focuses on helping Wayuu pregnant women with low birth weight for gestational age and children under 12 years of age with malnutrition or at risk and/or stunting, living in the municipality of Manaure, promoting healthy nurturing environments, with high quality standards in comprehensive nutritional health care (intramural and extramural) whose strategic objectives are comprehensive health care for vulnerable populations and improvements in nutritional outcomes.