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The Ashaninka Online Seminar - October 2002

QUESTIONS FOR ERICK CASTRO 
 1. I would like to know how the three projects were combined together to foster your objectives. How did electronic means combined   with traditional means to let your voices be heard? 
  >We actually have 5 projects: 
 
  > 1.. Installation of a Radio Satellite Station financed by IICD of Canada 
  > 2.. Implementation of a Carpentry workshop, financed by the Canadian Embassy 
  > 3.. Implementation of a Sewing workshop financed through the cooperation of Holland 
  > 4.. Radio Communication Program (making the programs for the Radio Station) for Marinki 98.1 F.M The Indigenous Voice 
  > 5.. Project Ayoompari. 
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  >How they are being combined: 
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  >Communication is very important for the coordination, that is why the Radio Station plays such a big role. 
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  >The two workshops are helping the Ashaninka families to supplement the scant earnings they derive from agriculture. 
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  >The Project Ayoompar of Agricultura. It is oriented to better the quality of the agricultural products of the Ashaninka 
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  >The Project of installation of the Radio in my community and the modules at other communities has been done. What is left now is to install the Telephone lines and the H.F Radio. 
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  >The Project of communication (developing the content) . This system has as its objective to rescue and give again its value to the Ashaninka culture and at the same time strengthen the management of the community and help with the local commerce of the Ashaninka's products. 
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  >It is through the Radio that we are transmitting our voice and proposals for a better development of our community, the same way we are using our web pages to let people know about our work and to be recognized as an autonomous community. 
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2. How was the fire caused? Do you think it was an accident? Does it have anything to do with reactions form the community? Related to this, due to your initiative, did your elders feel threaten by the new technologies or, even, by the power the young people were getting? 
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  >We will only say that it was caused by hands not in sympathy for our cause. It was not caused by short circuit, since we do not have electricity. 
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  >The only threat the elders feel is that they do not know how to use the technology, and of course it is a dare to learn, and also what we have is being used to teach the young people of our community. 
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 3. Do other people, apart from the Ashaninka, hear your radio? 
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  >Yes, we mentioned the Yaneshas and also the colonists that live in this Valley Perene. We have quite a reach as our transmitter is 250 v. 
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 4. What other steps do you think you have to undertake in order to be completely successful with this experience? 
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  >We need to unite strengths by strategic alliances and also by sharing experiences with other indigenous communities. 
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  >Answers to Pompeyo's Qs. 
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  >We have the following radial programs presented by the Ashaninka and the Yanesha: 
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  >The Ashaninka Dawn: Program dedicated to strengthen the community and to tell of the work our community is doing. 
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  >Stories and Legends of the Valley Perené: Stories of the past and the present. 
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  >Typical foods 
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  >Naturistic medicine 
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  >Kishtari 
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  >Juvenil Program 
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  >Romantic Program 
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  >Religious Program


nDonna - 11:48am Nov 17, 2002 (1.)MarkReplyEdit MessageDelete MessageMove
Hola! This is Donna Starr from the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe. I was so honored to visit the Ashaninka Village in August of this year. I saw the radio station. It is remrkable what the people have done. I was wondering if Pitziro aired my grandmother's song over the radio. It was good to share her song with the people and my family was so happy to know that the song was being learned by the Ashaninka People.
Also, I wanted to get a message to the Ashaninka people that I think of them often. I'm wondering how Mino's mother and father are. Thanks are extended to the people of the Ashaninkas.