Local Partner: Corporación Cultural Ecológica Mujer Tejer y Saberes – MUTESA.
La Chorreada, Colombia is a border territory with Peru. This region is being affected in different ways by the massive contagion of COVID-19. The advance of the virus is leaving collective after-effects and is creating a spiritual, territorial and human imbalance.
The proposed contingency plan is to monitor 22 communities and their 3,600 inhabitants. Surveys were conducted on the diagnosis of the contagion and the effects of the disease. Purchase of food supplies to guarantee the feeding of families affected by COVID-19. Promotion of the use of traditional medicine and support for supplies from traditional doctors in the communities.
Durante la pandemia se hizo la visita a los 22 comunidades y a los 4 pueblos indígenas del territorio de la chorrera Amazonas. Control de COVID-19, en los 4 pueblos indígenas, en la zona de la Chorrera en las 22 comunidades, aplicando la medicina tradicional. Los 16 abuelos, sabedores y médicos tradicionales evitan el contagio a sus pueblos y comunidades, con la orientación de consejos, curaciones, diálogos y sanaciones en cada un o de sus pueblos. Como resultados de todo este trabajo realizado en las 22 comunidades en la zona de la Chorrera bajo la responsabilidad y coordinación de AZICATCH–MUTESA.
MUTESA and the Asociación Zonal Indígena de Cabildos y Autoridades Tradicionales de la Chorrera Amazonas-AZICATCH. They will collaborate together for the realization of the implementation of the project.
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