ABSTRACT
277On 9 May 2011, I joined two female social workers from the municipal district of Cayma on their monthly tour to marginal neighbourhoods, where provisions of powdered milk and cereals are distributed to mothers of young children. This distribution is part of a national Peruvian programme called Vaso de Leche, a glass of milk, which provides nutritional support to children of poor families. In Cayma, milk and cereal were distributed by two social workers, Bridget and Edith, and a driver, Señor Jacinto, in a big old yellow pick-up truck from 1971. The car belonged to the municipality of Cayma, to be used for official services only.
