🏹 In the covid-19 pandemic, indigenous peoples in Brazil led actions that were crucial to contain the advance of the virus in communities and the state of Roraima was no different. 😷 The use of masks, hand sanitizer and traditional medicine were and are initiatives that the native peoples in Roraima spearheaded in the fight against the pandemic. Not forgetting that the vaccine remains the best prevention to contain the disease.
📽️ Watch the video to show the testimony of Nilvania Santos de Almeida, Indigenous Health Agent, recorded by the indigenous communicators of the Wakywai Network (RR), at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), in January 2023, at the Lago Caracaranã Regional Center, Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land.
⭕ The result of the project, "Indigenous Communication Networks: Weaving Ties Against Covid-19", supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a New Partners Initiative, Expanding Partnerships in Health (NPI EXPAND), SITAWI (Finance for Good), the International Institute of Education of Brazil (IEB) and the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), which form the partnership to support the Response to covid-19 in the Brazilian Amazon region