good afternoon
I want to start by telling you about two
very different communities
for the moment the Bahamas call
community a and community see community a
it is a town with a lot of wealth is
really inspiring the moment that
you get there you realize
immediately from the spirit of
community that is there all the
world is known and everyone comes together
once a month to organize a
democratic way and if you get sick
and you have to go to the hospital there is always
someone who takes care of your children or your
animals
the vast majority of the population are
self-sufficient chacreros and at the same
time there are several cooperatives of
artisans who work together to make
and sell their products instead
community is a community in crisis is
an area of low levels
socioeconomic categorized as zones
of extreme poverty
known for its high rates of
illiteracy malnutrition and underemployment
there are many guys from this community who
they live in a high situation
risk
given the fact that a large percentage of
families have problems of
alcoholism and violence
now he asks me which of those
two communities
I would like to support imagining that
you have 10 soles in your pocket and there is a
social project that is working on
the two communities where you
would like to allocate your money
this is a question that I have asked
many times to many people and always
and it comes back with the same answer but
in reality those are not two communities
different but that’s just one community
described from two perspectives
different and what that shows us are
two things 1 that there is not one
narrative of a community
there are many versions of it
history and these versions depend on
who is not telling who is
counting
and what is the reason for sharing that
history
At the same time, it shows us that
stories we have to
ourselves about the communities
where we live are the communities where
we work those stories are powerful
depending on the version of the
story that you listen to you can
provoke a reaction a feeling
a totally different action
today I want to suggest that as
donors
we have to reject the
once version of a community
the version that speaks from a
deficiency perspective as if
our communities are nothing more than a
set of needs and problems and
because we ongs
We have the responsibility to search
new ways of understanding our
communities and new ways of telling
his stories
I am very sorry that everyone knows that no
I am Peruvian because of my accent on English
I arrived in Peru in 2007 I was 18 years old
and I came to work as a volunteer
in a home for abandoned children in the
city of cuzco and while my
best friends are learning the
quantum physics the philosophy and
English literature
I spent seven months practicing my
way to change a diaper and not what
I achieved
and it was in the second week that I
I found out that the vast majority of those
guys who are in that home
They are from the same city of Cusco
if they are not children of families daughters
rural areas near the city and that
it made me wonder why it is that
so many children of that community
these communities are ending up in
homes like this one in the city of cuzco
and do you wonder what did you get to
cuts a rural area within an hour of
city of cuzco and to make history
short after seven months working
Between Cuzco and Cork, I went from being
volunteer to co-fund the good thing that
breastfeed and that nowadays we
we work with more than 300 children
supporting them to receive an education
quality
shortly after starting
the first projects and after
start working with the guys in
cork to I was having lunch one day with
some of the girls in one of the
projects and suddenly out of the blue one of
the girls asked me a question for the
which was not prepared
I wonder why help us and I
I honestly had no answer
I was speechless and suddenly she returns with
another question is because we live
in extreme poverty
I wonder and those words dreamed so
weird coming out of that girl’s mouth
11 years old
it turns out that only she had
aware that his community had been
categorized as extreme zones
poverty and it was shocking to see those girls
just becoming aware of the fact that
their communities were poor and their
grandparents and their parents were officially
poor
from that moment we have done
everything possible to support those guys
know their communities through another
yes lens
according to a word according to a
definition of the word are poor
for the same time in other terms
they have many strengths and many
riches
and despite the fact that they have to
experience a lot of discrimination in the
city for supposedly being ignorant
or late
being materially poor does not mean
inferior and they can take urcuyo from
their cultures and they can take a script of
their community
so after those seven months I
it was back inglatera and it was one of the
most difficult seasons of my life
maybe some of you know what
is to live two whole years in food
Peruvian is not recommended but thank you
to God I already had a satisfaction
very big I had a mission to
communicate everything he had found
in Cork with the idea of getting support
dams communities and for those projects
and to my great surprise, the people
supported in an incredible way and
after the first year we managed to
enough funds to grow
the projects and to include more children
but in the second year
I got up one day and I started to check
our website
I realized that something did not fit I gave
account that these funds were based
in a lie not a lie so I
I was telling people but a
lie so he was not saying to
the people in my search for support had
done what many ongs ago had
omitted a large part of the history of
those communities their strengths and when
you are aware of a problem a
urgent need is very easy
they will just talk about that
problem just talk about that
need because you’re obsessed with
make a change that the best way to
raise funds we all know that it is
tell the story from a perspective
of efficiency but what happens when
we define the people according to
the problems that people face
from becoming victims and the relationship
between the donor and the beneficiary
is again vertically there is a balance
power is the donor that is the subject
active
the protagonist of the story and is the
beneficiary that is the objects to passive
or the receiver and so we are promoting
That idea
that look put on the list of
communities that assumes that those
communities do not have their own
resources and do not have the capacity to
solve your own problems
so we sit down to think
what can we do to tell the
cork’s story to one more way
meaningful and we wanted to take our
inspiration of Andean reciprocity and
of mutual support to imagine a new
way to build that relationship between
the donor and the beneficiary
we wanted to create a connection
reciprocal and horizontal in that the power
be better distributed at the same time
I wanted to show the guys their right to
be involved in the activities that
impact their lives and that’s why
we wanted to own the boys themselves
so that they can tell their own
own history and so that they can
appropriate the narrative of his
community
so we created meet my world know my
world a participatory film project
the mission of the boys was simple to
through writing and presenting their
own movies
they were going to show the world their
strengths and their riches
they were going to teach their skills in
to people from all over the world
so they were going to do the
teachers and we were going to do
the students and that was the beginning of a
unique educational process the boys are
they went to talk to parents with
your grandparents to look for the strengths
their communities and to look for
things that make them feel proud
of your culture and after eight months
of researched writing his script
practicing his presentation
they worked with the film director
cristina patiño to make her videos
a reality and through that process
those boys of a young age were given
realize that they have a lot to
teach haydee for example wanted
how does one teach us not deparó
to show us how we work in
the farm with the bulls and angelica
I wanted to teach the English how
can turn your pets into a
delicious pepián de cui
now it’s up to you guys, I hope
that are ready to make students by the
day to your teacher
yes amaiur and is 14 years old and really
He is a genius and today is to show
how fish is caught with hands
and emilio and hery sting meals janka se
extends short and when I finished my
school they study civil engineering and
he wants to build roads and he arrives
part I would like to know me
a great engineer who have affection will
it makes me a lot and a half I like it and
mailing to like is I want to teach them
how that rag the fish with their hands
this one very attentive to benzi pigs
attentive to what
[Music]
you have to climb your swamp to the
knee height and take away the
sweater if it’s big river do not you dare
it can be dangerous if it is small can
be and your mind your hands under the
stones
[Music]
[Music]
if you feel that they slip from 2 attentive is
a weight
[Music]
if it goes to another place
we have to follow and catch his
owner and fees not outside the river
[Music]
together several fish could take you
home to prepare a dish that to me
like fried weights and french fries
I like to catch the fish I share with
my friends when I cook is rich
[Music]
but that you liked
if they do not tell me about the fish until
next
[Applause]
Well, I’m sure you are
agreement that what yuri shows and his
friends is that the power and talent
is much better distributed than
opportunities and that talent and that
power that has inspired people in
all parts of the world to support these
Boys
we organize projections in
london in lima in new york amsterdam
and to date the movies of the
guys have seen each other for more than 60 thousand
people around the world but the
most special projection is in cork to
with the kids and their parents because that
it’s time that the boys give themselves
account of the impact their
movies and that’s the time that the
young teachers know their
students with the support of some faces
known
thousands and thousands of people took pictures
or wrote letters to thank
the boys and to show their
thank you for your lessons and
the boys could not believe that so many
people from so many countries that neither
they knew his name they had learned
of them and the boys realized
that they have a lot to teach
Through same gout we wait
where to show a new way of telling
the history of a community
involving the same guys from the
community and based on the
strengths so they are a
central part of the story
we hope it is a small example a
part of the process of imagining creating
new narratives about communities
marginalized that instead of seeing them as a
set of needs and problems
we recognize their strengths and their great
power thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
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