By Sebastian De los Heros | Development coordinator
Hello! Hope you are having a good day and preparing yourselves for a new great year!
Long time we have worked with Shipibos children and youth in the Amazon region of Ucayali. Under very different strategies, combining western teaching with the knowledge of living culture, we obtained important results in terms of consciousness about the care of nature and the harmony that we should have with it. See children learning to plant in school or young people training in the environmental analysis of their own territory have led us to open very important bonds of friendship, but also relationships of trust strengthened by the successes and errors that time has left us.
Without a doubt, the experience has allowed us to understand the fundamental value of working together with future generations to contribute to positive change in the community. However, we always face a great challenge of the sustainability of the projects or initiatives that young people propose or the stagnation of them due to limited budgets. And it is in this sense that we want to renew our system of work.
After many failed and successful attempts, we will focus our strategy of empowerment or strengthening of capacities and knowledge within three projects that are ready to start in 2021: "Rao Banabo" (Urban Medicine Garden), "Kené Néte" (Young Artists and Fashion Designers with Shipibo Art) and "Jeman Cine" (Community Cinema).
Each one with its own particularities and different perspectives of work. Rao Banabo is focused on promoting the preservation of the use of native medicinal plants through the implementation of gardens in public (community schools, parks, etc) and private spaces (green areas of indigenous organizations, environmentalists, homes of Shipibo families), where it is planned to teach the children of the neighborhood or schools, in addition to other important elements of the project;Kené Néte concentrates its energies on empowering a young group of artists and fashion designers to reach an important level of management of their resources and skills, until they become independent and form a collective; On the other hand, Jeman Cine is a project that we will work together with the Goverment, providing tools to create audiovisual products that reflect the cultural reality that two native communities face regarding how they use their ancestral plants. In all three projects, although we have a small budget, we require more support to be able to transform them into ongoing programs, until we generate a high level of independence in each intervention.
By changing the working methodology, not so much sporadic, but more planned, we decided to end this initiative of GlobalGiving "Youth Permaculture training", taking everything to a more professional scale and, at the same time, humanly sustainable.
We are very grateful to the more than 150 donors who supported us along the way. Please do not stop supporting us:
Rao Banabo --> https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/indigenousbotanicalgardens/
Kené Néte --> https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/support-shipibo-artisans-and-fashion-designers/
Jeman Cine --> https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/alianzaarkana texting “JEMAN CINE”
Irake (thank you)!
By Sebastian De los Heros | Area coordinator
By Sebastian De los Heros | Area Coordinator
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