Women´s Circle Project
Why the Women´s Circle?
The
project is developed in
the Department of Amazonas,
with the indigenous communities
of San Martín de
Amacayacu, Arara and San
José km 6; working
with the Tikuna and Uitoto
ethnic groups.
In
this project, are participating
175
women
and children.
The
indigenous communities
where we develop this
Women´s
Circle,
live from the activities
of agriculture, fishing,
hunting and handicrafts.
The Ecotourism appears
in the 80´s, when
hotels began activities
in the City of Leticia,
and became as an alternative
economic income.
The
idea to do the Women´s
Circle,
began when Green
Hope Colombia
and ForestEver
developing the Forestry
Project for many years;
had some talks with indigenous
women working in the project,
they wanted to make this
circles and workshops to
share knowledge and the
importance of Women in the
Amazon Forest.
When
we had the first meetings,
the women insisted to create
an space and safe places
to dialogue about their
problems, they have been
facing for years. Also to
empower the tradition of
the Amazon Women.
Also, they wanted to have
our support to value their
health, tradition and being
recognized as healers and
body protectors of life
and knowledge.
The
Green Hope Colombia
Foundation and
ForestEver,
have the priority to protect
and support indigenous communities
and their relationship with
nature and planet.
Contents of Women´s
Circle.
I
Workshop: Body,
orchard, territory and women´s
rights.
II
Workshop:
Menstrual
cycle, ovulation and sexuality.
III
Workshop:
Maternity.
IV
Workshop:
Traditional
herbal medicine.
V
Workshop:
Traditional
cuisine and ceramic.
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Women´s Circle Goals.
1.
Strengthen the health and
well-being of women, respect
the environment, reduce
and stop domestic violence,
improve the development
of food and medicinal autonomy
in the indigenous communities.
2.
Know the women´s rights,
children and indigenous
communitieswith social justice
and the defense of the territories
in the Amazon Forest.
3. Reduce
the garbage and trash in
the indigenous communities
and around their environment
to protect the forests.
Replace the traditional
sanitary towels and baby
diapers with reusable towels
and diapers. Achieve environmental
education, learning about
the classification and separation
of solid waste and garbage
reduction.
4. Empower
orchards and agriculture
sustainable practices in
the indigenous communities,
to protect the forest and
biodiversity.
5.
Diversify the importance
of food and diet governance
in communities. We want
to reforest 15.020
native trees,
fruit trees, wood trees
and palms.
6.
Ceramic Workshops to preserve
of the indigenous Ticuna´s
culture, training 15 women
artists in the Community
of San Martín de
Amacayacu. Also we want
to revovery the tradition
of using ceramic in the
daily life of the indigenous
people.
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