By Felix Posada | project leader
Indigenous Zenú children live in harsh conditions due to poverty, isolation, and neglect by the Colombian state. From a very young age, they learn in their daily lives concepts that seem otherworldly to many of us, such as hunger, disease, loneliness, and hopelessness.
They grow up without knowing they have rights or dignity. Joy and play are replaced by arduous tasks within their families, such as helping to fetch drinking water, caring for domestic animals, and weaving handicrafts. Through our workshops, children learn not only that they have rights, but that among those rights is the right to play, to dream, to have time to imagine new ways of seeing this harsh world. They discover their creative abilities by practicing theater, painting, music, and puppetry, and their lives are filled with color and hope.
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