AMERICA/BOLIVIA - A project to spread Afro culture among children of Yungas communities

Monday, 17 November 2014

La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Afrobo foundation, which deals with the protection of the rights of Afro Bolivian children of different Yungas communities, has implemented a project for the dissemination of afro culture –regarding 110 young children of three communities, Chicaloma, and Yabalo Thaco, that are in this mountainous area of the Latin American Country. During the stay in the community, the team that follows the project promoted workshops for children and teenagers, they collected 89 photographs in the Afros book, which depict scenes of everyday life.
In addition to photography course, the little ones attended lectures on Afro music and its typical instruments, on the history of the Afro arrival in Bolivia, interculturalism and its attention to the environment. The aim is that afro descendant children and Aymaras know more about their culture, in order to strengthen their own identity and to eliminate all forms of discrimination. Given its success, the Foundation intends to carry out the project in other Yungas communities. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 17/11/2014)


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