For the education of Tarahumara indigenous youth

In this report we share some activities and scope in the use of spaces for the attention of students, mostly indigenous, in communities of the Sierra Tarahumara.

The contact center for the attention of students in the community of Yerbitas, municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo. Did you know that to reach this community we traveled nine hours from the airport in Chihuahua, Mexico?

From the community of Yerbitas we monitor the basic education and high school schools in Turuachi, Agua Amarillas, Rancho de en Medio, El Venedito and Atascaderos.

We have noticed that attendance at these contact centers for student care has increased.

 Three centers located in the Sierra Tarahumara and one in the city of Chihuahua.

Tarahumara Foundation provides accompaniment and services through participatory workshops for training processes, activities on socio-emotional issues, identity and human rights, construction of citizenship through community committees to solve any problem.

University students participate in workshops on communication, writing, mathematics, identity, and human rights at the Contact Center located in the city of Chihuahua.

Links:

• Fundacion Tarahumara Jose A Llaguno

A new school year 2022-2023 is starting, we are happy to share with you that 500 high school and university students are participants in the education program operated by the Tarahumara Jose A Llaguno Foundation.

Every day at least 12 students attend one of the contact centers located in Yerbitas in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo, in the community of Guachochi in the municipality of Guachochi, in the community of Creel, municipality of Bocoyna and the fourth center in Chihuahua.

During the months of September and October, there were 302 visits to the contact centers, students used the facilities that have Internet and computer equipment.

At thestart of this period, 500 students are accompanied in educational training processes with the main objective being to generate greater opportunities for development (being and doing in freedom), based on favoring conditions of equity in access to inclusive education.

The main goal in these spaces is to promote the participation and organization of the students, starting from the integration of small groups. Strengthening the identity and appropriation of these spaces as Fundación Tarahumara students.

My name is Daniel Muní Chaparro, I am originally from the community of scissors, Municipality of Gpe y Calvo, Chihuahua. I am a young man who speaks the Tepehuan mother tongue and I also speak Spanish. I study at the Technological University of Tarahumara, in Guachochi, the career of Engineer in Sustainable and Protected Agriculture, I am currently in the fourth semester. Going to the university house represents tranquility, freedom and it is always very comfortable, I feel that it is my home there because they welcome me very well, and I can also have fun with my colleagues who go too. What I go to the university house is to do homework, research, use the internet, books and computers. If I didn't have a place to go to do my homework, it would be difficult for me to continue with my studies. Of the things that I think our university house lacks is a room to be able to do homework or read, also to put more heaters since it is cold time it gets very cold, as well as firewood to be able to put on a fire.

Links:

• Education for students