Chariboan Joi

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0.1 Nueva Betania, Yarinacocha, Peru – Joined Rising Voices in 2014

1 Find Them on the Web:
2 Latest Project updates from Chariboan Joi
3 Chariboan Joi's Blog as a Space to Share Their Accomplishments
4 Shipibo Youth Take the Next Step as Chariboan Joi Digital Journalists
5 Chariboan Joi Prepares Journalism Workshop for Shipibo Youth
6 Documenting Elder Storytelling at the Shipibo Chariboan Joi Cultural Festival
7 Preparing for the Chariboan Joi Cultural Festival Festival in Shipibo Communities

Nueva Betania, Yarinacocha, Peru – Joined Rising Voices in 2014

A storytelling festival planned for the community of Nueva Betania on the outskirts of Yarinacocha in Ucayali, Peru will be the starting point for this project. With support from the Arkana Alliance, newly trained citizen reporters from the Organization of Indigenous Youth from the Ucayali Region (OJIRU) are exploring how to use mobile phones to cover the event and help document the legends and stories shared by the local artists in the native Shipibo language and translated into other languages.

From there, the citizen reporters are creating digital stories about their communities focusing on preserving cultural traditions and language, but also examining the effects of extractivism on the surrounding environment. By establishing partnerships with local radio stations and employing other distribution techniques, such as loud speakers in public spaces, the citizen reporters will be able to better reach those without internet access.