Showing posts with label Achuar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Achuar. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2011

Heart Storming- Come! Watch, Help Share Mother Earth's Message


Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com 

Happy Friday Everyone, Have a Great Weekend, here's a Beautiful Message From Pacha Mama to Share with All Your Friends and start things off right!
http://www.pachamama.org/
http://www.facebook.com/PachamamaAlliance


Heart Storming- Come! Watch, Help Share Mother Earth's Message


Our Mission

Our mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, To educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.


Our Story

The Pachamama Alliance was born in response to a request from the Achuar, an indigenous people deep in the Amazon region of Ecuador. The Achuar made the courageous decision to seek a partnership with people from the industrialized world who would work with them in protecting their rainforest home and their traditional way of life. Out of this unique partnership, it has become evident that indigenous wisdom and insight offer enormous value in addressing the complex issues that we face in our modern world.


Latest News
http://www.pachamama.org/category/news/

Awakening The Dreamer

http://www.pachamama.org/news/awakening-the-dreamer/2011/03/04/mexico-korea-awakening-dreamer-expansion-collaboration-momentum-examples/

Mexico and Korea: 

Awakening the Dreamer Set for Further Expansion

Posted on March 4th, 2011

ATD Community in Korea


The Awakening the Dreamer communities in Mexico and Korea recently learned just how powerful each individual can be when they synergize their efforts and act in concert with others with common interests and aspirations

In each country, the Symposium message is gaining momentum, and about to grow even more powerfully.

A vibrant group of Mexican Facilitators came together for two days in a very powerful and energizing planning session to determine their vision, mission, leadership, and strategic partners. 

Mexican Facilitators left their planning session with a Mexican council in place, and concrete actions to coordinate and support their fast growing Facilitator body.


In Korea, Dr. Ken Gimm, with his very active fellow Facilitators, started to organize their actions and inspired more than 100 trained Facilitators in just over one year

In 2011 Korea has set the bar with a goal of presenting the Symposium to 10,000 individuals and training 200 Facilitators.  

Both communities in Korea and Mexico serve as inspiring examples of what can happen when groups of like-minded people come together to create a vision with a plan for action.


Would You Like to Be on the International Team of People Spreading the FOUR YEARS. GO. Commitment Campaign?

http://www.pachamama.org/news/four-years-go/2011/03/04/international-team-4yg-commitment-campaign-new-future-shift-humanity/

Posted on March 4th, 2011

4YG Mobilizer Team If so, we invite you to join the 4YG Mobilizers the precious and audacious people who are leading the expansion of the 4YG declaration worldwide, honoring our commitment to create a new future for humanity by the end of 2014.

Join others like you from all parts of the globe interested in spreading FOUR YEARS. GO. through the arts, media, social media, speaking engagements, youth, organizations, special events and one-on-one conversations.
 
We regularly hold inspiring conference calls where we provide a rich array of training and development.  

We also interact with each other in our online community and occasionally get together virtually for Mobilizer Summits. 

Our very first virtual Mobilizer summit will be held on April 16, 2011 with sessions available to accommodate all time zones. 

If you are interested in joining the Mobilizers and/or want to participate in the virtual summit, please contact marilyn@fouryearsgo.org.
 


FOUR YEARS. GO. TeamWe invite you to join the team that will change the course of history in the next four years!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Jungle Mamas



Here's a very interesting program

Even though I wanted a natural childbirth and had a birthplan and thought I had it all figured out that I could do it, mind over matter, my body did not co-operate, and after 40 hours of labour the doctor told me "Yes!" When I said thru my tears "Am I going to have to have a c-section?" 

Women used to die during childbirth, it was very common. Today with all the knowledge available and hospitals, the risk is much lower. But imagine living in the jungle, where everything is natural, but perhaps there is no clean water, or because of encroaching pollution from outsiders or all the other elements that hinder education in these matters. Perhaps the elders haven't been able to pass on their knowledge.  I can see where a program like this would be very helpful as long as the women can retain there heritage and value but keep themselves and their children healthy and alive.

Jungle Mamas 

http://www.pachamama.org/jungle-mamas/ 

Purpose and Vision

The purpose of the Jungle Mamas Program is to empower indigenous women and their communities, to ensure safe birthing and the health and well-being of the Achuar people. We view empowerment of Achuar women as the unifying element to ensure success on joint projects and to build the capacity to become self-sustaining.

We consciously build into all our initiatives the opportunity for women’s leadership to emerge.

Our main focus to date has been saving lives of mothers and babies by teaching prevention, recognition and response to pregnancy and birth emergencies.

We have done this by addressing the urgent issues of maternal deaths, infant morbidity and family planning, as well as broader family and community health concerns.

Background

“We used to think we HAD to go into the jungle alone to birth our babies. Now, thanks to Jungle Mamas we know there’s a better, safer way.”
— Achuar participant trained as birth attendant
One of the most persistent and prevalent development issues globally is reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.

The women and communities of the Amazonian rainforest also face these challenges. This situation is directly related to the undervaluing of women and girls’ contributions to society and their lower social status.

 Read more here  http://www.pachamama.org/jungle-mamas/

Contact Jungle Mamas

Margaret Love, margaret@pachamama.org, 510.558.0994

 http://www.pachamama.org
The Pachamama Alliance