Teach 400 Indigenous Children: Justice in Colombia

Children from different communities have received training in media such as radio, theater, video, and puppets, emphasizing children's rights and human rights in general. Children have set up school radio stations and actively participate in programming on the indigenous radio station "Positiva Estéreo." Some of them are members of theater and music groups, denouncing violations of human rights, women's rights, children's rights, and environmental destruction in their works.

We are working so that these children systematize all their experiences in school, rights and audiovisual production that turns these children's groups into social leaders of their communities.

We are also emphasizing that children become guardians and protectors of the environment that surrounds them. Let them begin to be aware of the very serious problems that climate change has for the continuity of our life on the planet.
In collaboration with indigenous schools, we have developed initiatives to properly manage waste, make intelligent use of product recycling, and plant new trees.

Indigenous children, taking advantage of knowledge acquired in CEPALC workshops, have been producing radio shows, videos and theater plays to free older generations of communities from immobility and social apathy. In these media, children critically describe adults' indifference to solve problems that affect all neighbors; to assume social responsibility in defense of the rights of the entire population.

Communities have very serious problems: lack of drinking water; dirty water treatment; schools, hospitals; unemployment; hunger; corruption of local governments..... Children are looking critically at these situations and are demanding that adults face these problems; that they join with other communities; that they do not allow highly dangerous situations for social coexistence to grow such as drug addiction, prostitution, family breakdown, domestic violence