The equipment will be used mainly in support of community gardens and other activities of production developed by women
The Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), through the Department of Indigenous Women, represented by Kelliane Wapichana, General Tuxaua of the Women's Movement, accompanied by the advisor of the Department of Women, Kaline Mota, and assistant Leirejane Macuxi, held on August 26, 27 and 28, the delivery of materials from sustainability and cutting and sewing for women from communities in the regions Tabaio, Baixo Cotingo and Raposa.
Deliveries met demands presented by the indigenous women themselves, built from the needs of each community, which develop initiatives aimed at food production, income generation and strengthening of activities in the territories.
In the Tabaio region, the Boqueirão community received materials for sustainability activities. Already in the region Baixo Cotingo, the communities of God is for Us and Escondido were contemplated. In the Raposa region, the delivery was carried out in the Nova Estrela community.
Among the materials delivered are hoes, machetes, manholes, barbed wire, staples, hammers, chainsaws, screens and wheelbarrows. The equipment will be used mainly in the support for community gardens and other production activities developed by the communities.
For the production of cutting and sewing and production of handicrafts, fabrics, scissors, sewing threads, acrylic and elastic paints, in the communities of Pium, Tabaio region and in the Camará community, Baixo Cotingo region. The materials will be used in the making handicrafts, clothes and other pieces produced within the communities.
The actions expand initiatives for the consumption of families and the sale of products, contributing to the generation of income and the strengthening of the autonomy of indigenous women
According to Kelliane Wapichana, the support for Women's initiatives is also one of the organization's ways of strengthening the work developed within the territories.
"We as the Indigenous Council of Roraima, we always seek to support the initiatives that have been developed, mainly by indigenous women within the territories, we are charged a lot by the coordinations, but it is a long process to buy, many times it takes time more is enough. And these materials delivered are for the strengthening of things that you have already been working both in sustainability and in cutting and sewing within their communities," said the general Tuxaua of the Women's Movement Indigenous people of the CIR, Kelliane Wapichana.
Sustainability and cutting and are part of initiatives that contribute to the development of communities giving continuity to the practices built by the women themselves indigenous people. With the materials received, they will be able to expand and improve activities that are already part of the daily life in the community.
The CIR reaffirms its commitment to strengthening community initiatives with the support of the Ford Foundation and FIMI, partners that contribute to the actions developed in the territories.