Formabiap plans to cover the costs of accomodation, food and health care at its educational campus for 80 young indigenous students who belong to four Amazonian peoples: Shawi, Kukama Kukamiria, Kichwa and Achuar. These students come from remote villages and will be trained to be teachers capable of educating the children of their communities with a foundation on their cultural and linguistic roots, thereby contributing to the preservation of the heritage and culture of their ancestors.
Of the 51 Indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon, four in particular-the Shawi, Kukama Kukamiria, Kichwa, and Achuar-face structural challenges in accessing quality, culturally relevant education. Unfortunately, many young people from these Indigenous groups who manage to gain access to higher education institutions for intercultural teacher training do so under very precarious conditions. The lack of economic resources when they are in regional capitals leads to high dropout rates.
We will cover the basic needs of food, accommodation, study materials and health care so that 80 young people from the indigenous Shawi, Kukama Kumaria, Kichwa and Achuar peoples can complete their training as future teachers in Intercultural Bilingual Education, fully identified with their people and reaffirmed in their culture.
The project will benefit more than 2,500 children in the communities where the future teachers will carry out their teaching work, in addition to strengthening the organizational and cultural fabric of their villages. These children will be the future young people responsible for proposing land management and autonomous development strategies for their communities, strengthening their values, and transmitting their language and culture.
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