By Flaviano Bianchini | Project Leader
In July a delegation of Source International has travelled to Cerro de Pasco to meet the youth organization Red Interquorum Pasco and help them in their campaign for their future.
In Europe and all over the world the youth are organizing themselves to sue their governments about their inactivity on the front of climate change, a practice that goes under the name of climate litigation. The youth of Cerro de Pasco they also want to hold their government accountable but the problem there is not just the climate change. Climate change is real and concrete but the youth in Cerro de Pasco face something even more concrete and real: the mine! The pollution caused by the mine is denying them the right to a sustainable and healthy future and therefore the young generation of Cerro de Pasco is ready to take action!
In doing so the youth of Cerro de Pasco will be helped by the youth of Bolzano, a city in Italy where the students of the secondary schools (15 to 18 years old) will collect founds, organize events, and host a delegation of Pasco for three weeks in March, in collaboration with the local organization Operation Daywork. A sort of twinning between the two groups of young boys and girls. A twinning that can led the city of Cerro de Pasco to a new level of justice and a new level of wellbeing. And also it can lead the youth of Cerro de Pasco to make history in doing the first juvenile group (and the first group in general) to obtain such a rule in Peru and in Latin-America.
But in order to do so the youth group of Cerro de Pasco need some help. And here it comes Source International. This summer we spent two weeks in the city of Cerro de Pasco. We have presented the results of our previous studies, we collected more water samples and we also organized a workshop on legal and strategic activities in collaboration with the University Daniel Alcides Carrion and with the legal group EarthRights International. We socialized with the youth group and also a delegation of Operation Daywork from Bolzano come to Cerro de Pasco to meet the young activists and organize their visit to Italy. Yes! A delegation from Red Interquorum Pasco will come to Europe in March and they will spend an entire month traveling around to make their case visible!
As always we will keep you posted through this channel and also through our webpage and our social medias!
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By Laura Grassi | Project Manager
By Laura Grassi | Project Manager
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