With the idea that the Millennium Development Goals are not just a government concern, a team of IPS journalists decided to see how much an organised community can do to fight poverty. They went to the jungle region of Chocó, in north-western Colombia, a geo-strategic place that has vast biodiversity, is rich in precious metals and water resources, and inhabited by Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities. When the IPS reporters reached Quibdó, capital of the Chocó department, an indigenous baby had died of malnutrition in the arms of her mother, just three days earlier, on the street outside the office of the Asociación Campesina Integral del Atrato. IPS found that this rural development group's great achievement has been to prevent the Atrato River communities from being demolished by Colombia's warlords.