On October 14, the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR) delivered traditional medicine kits to the Araçá community and cutting and sewing kits to Casa Vovó Eva in the Mutamba community.
According to the general secretary of the women's movement, Maria Betânia Macuxi, traditional medicine has given significant results in the communities, and the CIR continues to support these initiatives, through the emergency campaign.
In the Araçá community, which is located in the Amajari region, the regional coordinator of traditional medicine, Adevaldo Padilha Silveira was the one who received the kits. He said that the community will continue with the production of traditional medicine.
"I just have a lot to thank for the support to help us against this pandemic that is not over. We will continue to make the syrup, baths and bottles. I was saved by traditional medicine and others were too, and although we have lost important people, we are here to continue the work", he highlighted.
The general coordinator of the CIR Enock Taurepang and Maria Betânia Macuxi, secretary general of the indigenous women's movement, participated in the deliveries and emphasized the importance of partnerships with the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Rainforest and RCA, which provided support for the purchase of traditional medicine kits, through the emergency campaign, and the Amazon Cooperation Network Institute for Climate and Society (ICS).
On the same date, in the Mutamba community, still in the region of Amajari, the women's coordinator Angelita Nascimento also thanked the support that the Vovó Eva sewing house received. The cutting and sewing kit donated in the action, according to Angelita, will be a reinforcement for the activities of women who work in the making of bags, dresses, rugs, dish towels.
"I come to thank the CIR for its commitment, on behalf of the women of the community, and it brings benefits and improvements to us and the strengthening of indigenous women," said Angelita Nascimento.
