Equitable Origin celebrates its 10 Years
Virtual Seminar: «Strengthening the rights of Indigenous Peoples»
Session 1: The seminar emphasizes the current debate on the exercise of Indigenous Peoples to self-determination. Indigenous participants will have the opportunity to exchange experiences and expose the challenges they face in consolidating their models of autonomy. At the same time, the implementation gaps that undermine the exercise of rights, a fundamental pillar for the […]
¿Cómo Generar Contenido Audiovisual de impacto?
Introducción al video digital: Apreciación de la imagen ¿Qué es la imagen? Figura de una persona o cosa captada por el ojo, por un espejo, un aparato óptico, una placa fotográfica, etc., gracias a los rayos de luz que recibe y proyecta. «La imagen cinematográfica» Representación plástica de una persona o de una cosa, especialmente […]
Internet – A Tool to Strengthen Indigenous Rights
To expand the scope of the Indigenous Rights and Resource Hub (the ‘Resource Hub’) and address the urgent need for Indigenous communities to be connected to the internet in order to communicate and access information during the pandemic, Equitable Origin and the Consejo Regional Indigena y Popular de Xpujil (CRIPX) in partnership with HughesNet Mexico are using satellite technology to […]
Classes don’t stop due to the Pandemic in the Community of Mancolona, Mexico
Final blog as part of the virtual course «Tools to communicate with Impact» that the students developed on a variety of topics including health, COVID-19, connectivity and the internet. The Consejo Regional Indígena y Popular de Xpujil (CRIPX) made a computer center available so that the community of Mancolona, Mexico, could connect to the Internet without having to travel to the cities. This helped […]
Without cloak and sword, fighting for education
Final blog as part of the virtual course «Tools to communicate with Impact» that the students developed on a variety of topics including health, COVID-19, connectivity and the internet. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and various business centers closed. Because of this, classes were are online and the internet became a key resource for communities like the Tihosuco community in Mexico, […]
Resilient and Invisible Indigenous Peoples
Final blog as part of the virtual course «Tools to communicate with Impact» that the students developed on a variety of topics including health, COVID-19, connectivity and the internet. Mexico is home to more than 25 million people who are members of one of the 68 Indigenous Peoples recognized in the country. Faced with the […]
When water becomes the epicenter of community demands in the midst of a pandemic
Final blog as part of the virtual course «Tools to communicate with Impact» that the students developed on a variety of topics including health, COVID-19, connectivity and the internet. COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill, big companies have closed, and cities have been locked-down. However, Indigenous communities continue to move between the countryside and the city as […]
Educational Emergency In The Ecuadorian Amazon
The Ecuadorian Amazon region is the largest territory in Ecuador and houses nationalities and thousand-year-old cultures that maintain their way of life, customs and worldview. The Amazon does not only house there cultures but also great biodiversity in its vast green space (forest) that is considered the lungs of the Earth and has an intrinsic relationship with the nationalities that live in it. Because of this, it needs to be protected. CONFENIAE is a regional […]
Efrén Nango, Director of Education CONFENIAE: On the Educational Crisis in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Efrén Nango, CONFENIAE Education Director comments about the educational crisis that is being experienced in the Ecuadorian Amazon. «What Indigenous Peoples and nationalities are waiting for is to return to normality and to have face-to-face classes . Efrén also explains what it means for Indigenous Nationalities to have Intercultural Bilingual Education, a fundamental right that […]