[sugar-sur] Fire in Cantagallo, the last node of Shipibo culture in Lima

[Kaisa Haverinen]

How terrible news, so sad to read about this! :(

Thanks for sharing the memories and photos, Laura!

With warm wishes from snowy Helsinki, Finland,
Kaisa & Tuukka


Laura Vargas kirjoitti 07.11.2016 04:33:
> Back on 2010, during my first days at Escuelab-Lima as a Sugarlabs
> volunteer, I had the opportunity to take pictures to the work of
> Tuukka Hastrup, Kaisa Haverinen and Sebastian Silva, as they got about
> 30 XO to the bilingual primary school of the CantaGallo Shipibo
> community.
> 
> Together, they got the local MinEdu office (Ugel) to provide the
> laptops and the local school authorities to provide a room and time
> for the training of the teachers.
> 
> This is the first time I am sharing the pictures:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/48401912@N08/sets/72157623606532086 [1]
> 
> Six years latter, and after all efforts made to translate Sugar to
> local languages like Quechua, Aymara and Awajún, we haven't even been
> able to start with the Shipibo language yet. Why, is a good question.
> 
> As demand for oil, wood and gold increases in "developed" nations,
> pressure for indigenous land rights has translated into violent
> attacks, fires and even death of indigenous people. After two days of
> fire, the CantaGallo Shipibo community is reduced to ashes. The school
> (which was the only native language bilingual school in Lima) was
> burned and probably all the machines are unusable.
> 
> Today I understand that the Shipibos families, as it happens with many
> other Amazonic nations, are pretty busy surviving in the land where
> they stand and may just not have time or energy to sit and translate
> Sugar strings :(
> 
> Here's a video with an overflight
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvvJ8jcB0U [2]
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         --
> Laura V.
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> 
> 
> 
> Links:
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> [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/48401912@N08/sets/72157623606532086
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvvJ8jcB0U
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