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Media trainings for Indigenous women communicators from Central America organized by Cultural Survival.


** Representation Matters
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Dear Friend,

As 2019 comes to a close, I want to thank you for your generous support. Cultural Survival is committed to amplifying the voices of Indigenous women and promoting Indigenous women’s leadership in media. Our Community Media Program continued workshops for 80+ Indigenous women in Central America and Mexico in radio production and maintenance, journalism, and advocacy. We also supported five women as Media Fellows.

Our workshops incorporate the principle of Chacha-Warmi (an Andean perspective of gender harmony and duality). Before a woman can express herself publicly, she must first be comfortable in expressing herself with confidence in private. Ahead of building technical skills, our workshop facilitator, trained in healing for women who have experienced violence and trauma, offered a safe, women-only space for participants to share their stories.

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Mariana Cecilia García Sánchez (Nahua), a community doctor and radio volunteer from San Miguel Tzincapan, Mexico, stated, “I learned that not only is my work important, but also, I am important! This process planted in me many seeds: a desire to learn technical skills, admiration for other women, the fight for our shared pain, and a desire to work on radio content that is lacking. A love of myself, my people, for my radio station, and my dreams.”

Providing women like Mariana opportunities to find their voices and share their stories is essential in the context of femicide, rampant in Central America. Indigenous women, who disproportionately experience poverty and lack access to justice, are most at risk.

Amidst this attack on their dignity, amplifying Indigenous women’s voices is transformational. We cannot do this work without you. Please give generously to our end of year appeal so we can support more Indigenous women in this process. ([link removed])

Wishing you a Holiday Season filled with peace, hope, justice, and abundance.

With Gratitude,
Galina Angarova (Buryat)
Executive Director
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