Teach 400 Indigenous Children: Justice in Colombia

INDIGENOUS CHILDREN WITH GENDER CONSCIOUSNESS

Zenu indigenous children are deepening their training not only in their rights but also in the rights of women and groups excluded from Colombian society. They begin to understand concepts such as gender equality and to accept that they need to change language, behaviors, thoughts that defend or promote the supposed inferiority of women

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This work of gender awareness training has been done through artistic means such as painting, theater, music, puppets and communication media such as indigenous community radio stations. At the station "Positiva Estéreo" in San Andrés de Sotavento, children have programs that they produce themselves. In these programs, issues such as gender equality and women's rights are studied, while the non-compliance of children's rights by authorities, communities, families and the State itself continues to be denounced.

CEPALC and indigenous youth from communities in the Córdoba region have been working in themes of gender relations, identity, historical memory, and human rights from the prospective of women.

At the Cruz Chiquita Educational Institute in Tuchín, we recently did a new theater production on cultural traditions focusing on ancestral medicine and remedies that are often more accessible to the community.

In the Calle Larga school in San Andrés de Sotavento, we are working on a process of radio shows on the topic of ancestral heritage and connecting these traditions to younger generations. We’ve finished various podcasts as well as continued producing content for their radio program Positiva Estereo, the radio station from the San Andrés de Sotavento Communicators Collective.

Students from the INETADOTA school who are participating in comprehensive sex education courses are also working on radio production. They are continuing their training and education on topics of sexuality, reproductive health, pregnancy prevention, menstruation, identity, intimacy, and sexual and reproductive rights especially with teen girls.  

In La Siria, located in San Andrés de Sotavento, we are continuing to empower women in their economic rights for real female autonomy and completing trainings in women’s sovereignty from a young age. Women are changing machista ideas and are being recognized at the frontlines of social and economic change.