In the municipality of Ariguaní believe it started in the middle of the War of a Thousand Days. While the few indigenous Chimilas, community fought against the Spanish and Creole, are not recognized as great fighters and rulers of the territory. The two populations live in separate worlds. This is an opportunity to rebuild the historical memory of a region marked by wars. Narrate through vallenato music and orality. All eBooks will be published.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
The news stories are one piece to reconstruct the region memory. Resources used recognize the strengths of the two populations. In urban centers make up songs about their experiences, traditions, stories, legends, that's her story. While grandparents have in their language Chimilas the largest encyclopedia with secrets, experiences, myths, that also in its history. Eventually join sung and stories told in a digital library traveling.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
This project stems from an investigation that is making a middle school teacher with a group of students. We approach the Social Communication program at the University of the North to help us direct the work with communities to make proper use of the local media and define the contents of the message in order not to affect the susceptibilities, especially of the indigenous community.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
It will train 60 people, 40 of Ariguaní urban area and 20 others belonging to the indigenous community Chimila. We believe that through the composition and performance of vallenato music genre inherent people of the region, the mainstreaming of research with students’ academic conferences and unpublished stories of indigenous grandparents being heard by his descendants can be maintained interest from all population groups.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
The project has the support of the City of Ariguaní for $ 11,000 to purchase equipment, licenses, mobile internet and another $ 2000 per year to maintain the project. It will also finance the rest of the research we advance to reconstruct the history of the indigenous community Chimila and describe the process of settlement of the first Creole. Postulate this project calls for government entities of Colombia and the Internet Society.
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