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When you visit Santa Rosa you can’t hep but notice the gratitude the community feels for the work of the Commission, and for PBI’s presence. PBI have been accompanying the Commission for the past 19 years. Your support is very valuable to us in order to enable us to continue our accompaniment of human rights defenders in Colombia. Support us in our accompaniment of human right defenders. Please make a donation: http://www.pbi-colombia.org/los-proyectos/pbi-colombia/haz-tu-aporte/?L=1
The Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission is the agency that petitioned for the security injunction, as well as advising and accompanying the community since their displacement in 2010.
What we come to understand over the course of various talks, is that governmental presence is much needed here so that there may be adequate services such as those of education, health, housing, and new productivity proposals. Due to their vulnerable situation, the Inter-American Human Right Commission granted a security injunction to the 21 families from the Nonam community, and requested that the state adopt the necessary measures needed to protect the lives and physical integrity of the Nonam.
Santa Rosa has a healthcare specialist, but Wilson Garcia tells us that they do not get paid. To get to the nearest hospital it is necessary to travel two hours by motorboat, and then by road to Buenaventura. They have already requested options that will mean medical attention are nearer. The children regularly suffer from diarrhoea, flu, fever etc.
The Guadual Afro-Colombian community lives on the other side of the river. In the afternoons the Guadual children cross the river to play football.
Enrique, one of the teachers, tells us that they have elaborated study-books in the indigenous language for each school year. Unfortunately, the primary texts have not yet arrived, and they are still in search of funds to get the secondary texts printed.
At present Santa Rosa has 122 inhabitants, half of who are children and teenagers studying at the village school. The two teachers teach in Spanish and in Wounaan. One of their most important cultural features is the Wounaan language since the daily use of Wounaan is considered an act of resistance in defiance of their cultural extinction.
In Santa Rosa, women adorn themselves with beaded necklaces, and during festivities they paint themselves with achiote and jagua (plant dyes). They also make baskets constructed from werregue palm fibres. They sell their handicrafts to visitors, but they area also starting to commercialise their wares in cities like Buenaventura and Bogotá.
The Nonam community are part of the Wounaan indigenous people, made up of 11,000 people located in the Chocó and Valle del Cauca.
What we come to understand over the course of various talks, is that governmental presence is much needed here so that there may be adequate services such as those of education, health, housing, and new productivity proposals. Due to their vulnerable situation, the Inter-American Human Right Commission granted a security injunction to the 21 families from the Nonam community, and requested that the state adopt the necessary measures needed to protect the lives and physical integrity of the Nonam.
What we come to understand over the course of various talks, is that governmental presence is much needed here so that there may be adequate services such as those of education, health, housing, and new productivity proposals. Due to their vulnerable situation, the Inter-American Human Right Commission granted a security injunction to the 21 families from the Nonam community, and requested that the state adopt the necessary measures needed to protect the lives and physical integrity of the Nonam.
What we come to understand over the course of various talks, is that governmental presence is much needed here so that there may be adequate services such as those of education, health, housing, and new productivity proposals. Due to their vulnerable situation, the Inter-American Human Right Commission granted a security injunction to the 21 families from the Nonam community, and requested that the state adopt the necessary measures needed to protect the lives and physical integrity of the Nonam.
See photo in original gallery.
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