By Maria Inmaculada Puente | Project Leader
Hello our dear friends of Global giving! We have many news to you. We still working hard in acheive our goal: the preservation of native languages as a means of strengthening cultural identity for the new indigenous generations here in Sonora, Mexico. As you know, in order to do so, we organize artistic stimulation workshops for indigenous children, and with the resulting material developed bilingual (and even trilingual) educational games for them. The Kikapoo Lottery and Memory Game, our proyect with you, is one of the results, and we are very hopeful that your generosity allow us to print it soon.
Meanwhile, we have to move on. According to our plans, last november, we organized a workshop for the people of Tamichopa for making traditional drums; it was originaly planned for the kikapoo men, however, for their interest, children also participate. Was a lot of fun! They play and learned to make a drum! and another artistic stimulation workshop was held; this time, with the Tohono Otham children of Quitovac, Sonora a small town few miles south of the border in the Sonora-Arizona Desert. The children draw and colored beatiful images that we will use to create a new game as a didactic material for the preservation and difussion of the Tohono Otham language.
As you can see, there’s a lot more to do. The magic of playing and learning at the same time it’s something that we, and we mean you an us, have to make it last. Thanks for your support.
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