Racism against AfroColombians

Colombia is a multicultural country where converge traditions of different ethnical groups that enrich the culture and represents the historical mixes of europeans, africans and indigenous. Now, it is evident those mixes and it is present of our physical appearance, customs and it is also on our blood. However, nowadays most colombians not recognize the importance of those mixes and even knowing that we have more similarities than differences and that we share a lot of history, they ignore those people who is different on racial characteristics. According to the National administrative department of statics DANE, 10.62% of Colombia's population are Afro-Colombians.

Almost the 76% of them life in poverty, 42% are unemployed and only 2 of each 100 Afro-colombian students go to the university. It could be a cause of their poverty the lows levels of their academic education. The fact that when a family life in poverty and the children can not go to schools because they have to work to help to theirs families and for this reason they can not find good jobs and that continues of this way through generations.
Poverty also causes bad alimentation causing that Afro-colombians' children death is higher than the other children.

The improvement of their life is a social necessity. It is important to create integral strategies to help them to have a better life with better opportunities but keeping their's traditions and values because their culture is a very important part of ourself and we have to preserve it.