WORK WITH AND FOR ORIGINAL PEOPLES (MEXICO)

WORK WITH AND FOR ORIGINAL PEOPLES 

(CHILDREN, YOUTH AND COMMUNITY LEADERS)

Campaign to send to San Caralampio, Native Community in Pentalhó, Chiapas, Mexico,copies of the book: "The Rights of Boys and Girls (only for children by heart)" (an illustrated and with activities, friendly version of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children, written by me and published in Mexico, Venezuela and Spain in 1999). We also send them economical resources, in order to rebuild 3 schools destroyed by the Mexican Army. 

To raise resources, I conceived an interactive play presentation entitled: “Acting for a Radical Childhood”. 

It is a play based on actual reports from Amnesty International, that shows some real cases of children whose rights have been violated in several countries in Latin America, under the Conservative governments allies to the Capitalist United States policies. The presentation of the play was on March 31st 2005 at he re opening of the Acadia Cinema.

I invited a group of Entrepreneur students from the Acadia Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ACSBE), to write a friendly, social justice oriented business plan to sell  bookmarkers made by the native children of the Chiapas community. The whole project had the moral, and sometimes, financial support, of the Amnesty International chapter at Acadia University,  the Acadia Choir Ensemble,  2 graduated acting students, the Cooperative "Just of Us Coffee Cooperative Roosters", the government and the peoples of Wolfville.

It was a successful story in terms of financial benefits to the native community and in terms of the books we sent.

Native children from the "Zapatista" Community San Caralampio, in the municipality of Pentalhó, Chiapas, showing their books markers we sold.

Bookmarkers made by native children in Chiapas and the book sent to them.

Promotion of the Campaign to sell the bookmarkers and to send the book: "The Rights of girls and boys (only for those under 18 years old)".

Native girl from a community in Oaxaca, south Mexico, reading from the books: "The Rights of girls and boys (only for those under 18 years old)", published in Mexico, Venezuela and Spain in 1999.