Indigenous young people of Latinamerica and the Caribbean, face a significant and unfair social discrimination, and often institucional.
Indigenous populations usually live in less accesible places, as mountainous regions, forests and their conditions of poverty and social exclusion are evident. Those who live on urban areas, deal with discrimination and acculturation problems.
Lots of indigenous young men, specially women, only speak their native language and find development difficulties on the prevalent culture. Education systems are not bilingual in general, this operates as another element of discrimination and exclusion for indigenous young people.
From the Portal we intend to promote the promotion of our town’s ancestral cultures, and a bigger dialogue and integration among young people from different cultures, on the perspective of acknowledgment and the respect for ethnic and cultural diversity of our region, value as patrimony to preserve.
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Indigenous Youth
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 CYPCC trains Indigenous youth in ‘Life Plan’ development
The objectives of the training also were to equip participants with the tools they will need to develop a life plan for the next 10 years of their lives using the interactive and participatory methodologies and to raise the importance of goal-setting among the young people.
The Commonwealth Youth Programme Caribbean Centre (CYPCC) has fulfilled a promise to provide training to several young Amerindians of the hinterland villages of Orellana and Siparuta in Guyana, in 'Developing a Life Plan'.
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Indigenous Youth
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Three young people from Ecuador presented their agenda on securing the rights of indigenous children last week during the Sixth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The presenters – Nadino Calapucha, 16; Jessica Penafiel, 13; and Lourdes Yamberla, 18 – outlined ideas that had come out of meetings with a larger group of youths in Ecuador. 
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Last Updated ( Friday, 01 June 2007 )
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Indigenous Youth
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 CYPCC takes Information Technology to indigenous schoolchildren of remote jungle community ….Other strategic youth development interventions agreed with village leaders.
The donation was made under CYPCC’s Sustainable livelihood programme geared towards ensuring that young people from special communities and in special circumstances are provided with the necessary tools for empowerment. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 24 May 2007 )
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