Teach 400 Indigenous Children: Justice in Colombia

Indigenous children from the Zenú communities have continued making radio programs through cell phones. Although their regions, their communities are isolated to avoid contagion covid 19, children are so motivated by their radio practices, by desire to communicate their ideas, their thoughts, their concepts about new social realities created by disease in our country.

Before a pandemic began in Colombia, indigenous children in collaboration with school teachers created a school radio station through which they began to broadcast programs on human rights, peace, women's rights, nature protection.

Theater groups were also participating creating plays about respect for cultural, religious and social diversity.

Children Zenú communities do not lose hope; remain committed to helping build a better world, a world of justice and peace.

Children are empowering as true rights subjects. They have developed communication, social, and artistic skills. Rights, your rights, let be empty words for them, for their families. Families begin to be positively influenced by changes that occur in children's behavior and thinking

Indigenous children from communities Calle Larga, Cruz Chiquita, Cruz de Guayabo, Gardenias belonging to San Andres and Tuchín cabildos have been participating in series workshops on children's rights and social values. In these workshops they learn meaning concept rights, concept that did not exist in their lives. They learn that they have education, health, family, recreation, good treatment rights. They also learn to report violence and abuse that adults in family and communities commit against them.

These workshops have been complemented with other radio journalism workshops. We are creating radio school with indigenous children. On Calle Larga they have a radio booth or studio where they are starting to produce their own radio programs. These programs address issues such as defense and promotion of children's rights; denounces sexual abuse and the right of children to say NO to the violence that adults want to commit against them; environmental care and defense; values to build peace in Colombia; ethnic, religious, cultural minority rights.

These programs are beginning to be transmitted by indigenous radio stations San Andrés and Tuchín.

Our children are becoming journalists in their communities; in small great community leaders building peace and social solidarity from the radio.

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