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I am I am mestiza my mom and my
dad was today and I was born in bucaramanga
so as a friend of mine says I
i have been doing wyoming that for those
who do not know the Wayuu
we are the most numerous indigenous people
from colombia we are located in the
north of the country and the peninsula of
guajira and part of the territory
Venezuelan
we are approximately 300,000 people
that we are organized in castes or
matriarchal line plans that is to
my house gave it to me
my mom I am epiayú this condition
of mestiza has allowed me to have
direct contact with the two cultures
with Uruguayan and with arizona
Arizona is the term we
wayuu we use to refer to all
those people who are not guayo
practical terms
all of you are or not being and jonás and I
I am Uruguayan the town fell part
of those minorities that having some
customs and a dialect clearly
in front of those of the others they have to
face daily with barriers and
obstacles to achieve simple things
in tremendously complicated but what
happens when this barrier becomes so
that affect the integrity and
life of the people
today I want to tell you a bit about
respect I want to show you 5 scenario
I want to tell you five stories where
those barriers became obstacles
giants and in many cases brought the
situations with situations that do not
they were remediable with consequences that
they were not remediable because I love them
tell me this so that at the end of the
day
you know us and understand us
little better and we can do something good
among all these obstacles that have
what to do with language with listening
with the customs and traditions with the
context and with empathy
I want to start with the obstacle for
barrier larger than any
culture that is the language
for this I want to present you in your
page and rita epi it
they are both members of the community
awá are beautiful people of the
people worth knowing
neither of you speaks said nike I
Spanish about eight years ago
one of her Andalusian daughters fell ill
seriously Andalusian presented a
severe hemorrhage treated in your
ranchería to see that no improvement is
He headed to the hospital of Rivas Acha
it helped week and then it was moved
to the maicao hospital where it lasted almost
one more week
during all this time
they did not have more information of
what was happening with his daughter
the only thing that came to them that they said
is that Andalusia will be fine but
Andalusian died at 32 leaving
six children and in dads with many
questions that at this time I do not know
can remedy the fact that
Andalusia has died but I what
I want to highlight at this moment the
position of rita and lorenzo them in
this moment they do not know what their
day they do not know if they had options if
you had and your daughter was in a
treatment if it was once and it’s a
hereditary condition which has to
take care of their grandchildren now they do not know
nothing of this
they had to settle for thinking
that the doctor who is taking care of
is doing his best effort all
because they do not speak Spanish and the
doctor who treated them and who is
attending physicians did not speak
wayuunaiki I’m telling you this for
we see how important it is to know ourselves
communicate we are not used to that
the language shows us a
so expensive difference between life and
death but it is something that is happening in
the community this happens every day
in the hospitals of La Guajira
so my invitation to you is
that we try to communicate with the
other people
we try to speak his self
language although we do not speak the same
language the next scenario that I want
show has to do with listening the
mom give great advice and do not be
agreeing to them as when it’s happening
the time who was ever told
streets and I heard I was a victim of
streets and listen
They are José Luis Barros and his wife
katherine caught with her children
this is a family that benefits from
program families in action
government
this program gives some benefits not
financial assistance through a
debit card by which they
you can withdraw then one support every two
months
this support serves them to be able to
eat at least one month
about six months ago to jose
Luis lost the card
Obviously busy knowing what
important that is this resource was to
bank to be able to ask for your card there
spoiler with what a shame that is not where it
fix your problem
Jose Luis, not knowing what to do, heard himself
for your rancheria here I have to
make a parenthesis because I arrived
this story telling them the bread but
it turns out that for josé luis to arrive
to the bank
he had to leave his ranchería and
so that it leaves the ranchería has
have to walk a path of
approximately 8 kilometers
it’s as if you will walk from here
to the account he only with the sun
Guajiro and the sand also say yes
is very good and has the
resources you can take a motorcycle is going to
charge 3,000 pesos to take it up
the main road
there he takes a passenger car that
will collect 5,000 pesos round trip and
we certainly when it comes to
riohacha by terms economy deals
to do all your laps then walk
so couple of water bags after
and a sopita because that return is going to
take all day
Jose Luis will have spent more or
minus 20 thousand pesos 20 thousand pesos for a
person who is and a lot a month they come to
200 thousand pesos then to beat him
exercise think about how much you earn
you take out 10 percent and that’s
what it would take them what it would cost them
to you go to the bank
If you were to José Luis,
it is not any and the bank continuing with
the history
I met with such a service
like two months
he told me all this that he got
against you and I was coming to be second
attempt to regain his card there
and what did they say they did not give me no
this number a number 01 8000 when
I saw it as I think it’s pretty
absurd the solution that goes because
a person who does not have the services
basic in your house in a rancheria the
solution they give you is to call a
number 01 8000
obviously the phone in the rancheria
and because these numbers do not come out of a
cell terminate without any solution
for jose Luis and today I did it was another
time her home without a solution for
recover your card
the message of this story is that if
you want to do something for someone
more in your first what are the
needs of that person
what are your facilities what are
your resources what are your
limitations as in your environment
If you do not listen, you run the risk of
be less effective in what you want
do
let’s continue with the customs and identity
it turns out that in the Wayúu community
we have the oral tradition
we passed our customs of
one generation to another orally
for example our lands do not have
title do not have writings but
there is always going to be someone who knows
where a lot ends and where it starts
the other happens the same with our caste
in my diplomas in my ID and
surely in the program that you
have today in your hand I am claudia
male aguilar but I know my family
know and who knows me inside the
community know that I am pie
and I do not need a paper to
prove to them that I am useful
until I go out into the arizona world and I
they ask for it to be able to access a
benefit
usually ask that the card have the
chaste but it turns out that my dad was a
man with last name baron and my
mom was one of surname aguilar miami
who looks at the caste as I said in my
mom
so what we do there we lose
our customs our traditions
she sandra aguilar them prima mía yo
I do not know if you understand the photo I
I understood it when I saw it is the christening
of her when I realized that it was her
I baptize and in front because you
christenings closed their forties
years
she explained that she had already lost her
benefits to health sandra really
I needed that service and it was more than
one month without being able to access health
because I did not have how to prove that
she the Uruguayan was baptized because
inside the christening certificate
I went to his grandmother’s house now
can show that they go but that is not
the solution
that’s not a real solution I think that
instead of leading us to change our
traditions and customs to adjust
to the system the adjustment system for
including us inside him
for example a box in the registry
of birth where one can say
the one that claims that caste belongs
one would be very convenient for the most
of eighty and many geniuses that there are in
Colombia
here we see how the traditional system
Uruguayan and the system would make a
we colliding context
this is another barrier that I
found and for this I want it
I want to show you this time note
Say families to each girl or help
nutrition center where it was attended
it’s the first thing that you
think or feel when in a news
like this one but it is that we do not
we recognize the context of this news
so I think that before issuing a
judgment we must control our
emotions wait a bit and take the
work to know what is happening to
Through what can we see and
I want to explain a bit the context
this news is not all the same but
as usual
imagine the following you are
here in bogota
They have three children and one of their children
sick
it turns out that the hospital closest to
you are in bucaramanga santander a
189 now is the time that more or less
there are many places from the high
guajira to the top cha America where
they can be met only people
a bus leaves a week or a half
transport the week when they are
compliments
let’s imagine let’s continue imagining those that
you are there with your child they end up with
your sick child
his other two children away from the hospital and
a commission of Germans arrives and
says man his son is very ill not
we have to take it but it is that
you do not understand anything because you
does not speak German
many of them do not speak Spanish
so how would you face that
situation what would you do they are going
with your sick child and leave the others
two years without really knowing what they are going to
eat or who will suffer from water
because it’s three hours to walk
bring them water too, you stay
with his children and sends his sick son
with people who do not know whom
he does not understand the difficult situation
it is not the same for you that for me
take our children to the doctor who
for a father or a mother wayús for
who their circumstances are very
different
so I want to invite you before
to make a judgment
and take a definitive position in the
work to know the context of all
the situation and they do not have to be of
agreement at the end of doing is see if not
they have to agree but so
less are going to be better and better
informed and they will have a better basis
to take a position and finally
I want to talk to you a little about empathy
without the context there is no real empathy
for one to put oneself in the shoes of
others have to do it from their
context to make it something real
about two years ago
members of the community and I started
the cap and baron foundation
the foundation wants to provide relief
immediate needs like the
hungry as cold but also looking
sustainable solutions that help us
really to solve these problems that
we have
during these two years we have
carried out different activities with
family acquaintances family business private
Whoever wanted to listen to them and
I wanted to participate has had the
opportunity to do and I got to
think one day that all people
that help us only two are guajiros
because the people who are more
close to us those who see up close
what happens all those who are there
do not support us then the answer that
I found is precisely because
they have been there all the time
they have grown up watching this and they are
situations that have become normal
it’s normal for them that a girl I
I worked in a family house in exchange
of clothes and food as if I did not want
future is better for them to see
the artisans selling their products to
unfair prices and many times and it ‘s
abused by merchants
intermediaries and nothing happens is normal
that tourists come to ask for a discount
the prices my invitation in this case
is for us to look at our lives and see
let’s try to find situations that
soon they became normal is that not
they must be normal
exercise our empathy
I am a marine biologist and therefore I
I find a néstor analogy in the
different ecosystems as they coexist
different species and there are different
relationships between them there is competition
of creation but there are also
relationships where one or more species
benefits and yes or this is given without
that there was an external intervention
those systems would achieve a
balance that would guarantee
permanence of all species
I think that we as individuals and
society we must think what are the
better ways to relate to
people different from us
including us
aguayo
Thank you
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