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How our association is going to help Sacha Wawa?

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Monday, 04 January 2010 00:21 Written by Delphine

In this video, we wanted to explain what the aim of Sacha Wawa foundation was and how En piste pour le monde can help them. No worries, we sum up the video for the non-French speakers:

Sacha Wawa has several goals:

  • preserving the species of animal and vegetal in the Amazonian area
  • helping the local community
  • helping Indian children to go to school and to know more about their old traditions and their culture.

The association owns a plot of land in the Amazonian forest in Peru in the Estate of San Martin, district of Pongo Caynarachi, at the KM 65.

This association is protecting animals and offering them a place to be protected against hunters. They also want to build a school where all the abandoned children can come and learn everything about how to protect the forest and its inhabitants. It will also teach them customs of their ancestors.

Christine & Tecer are also planning to organize solidarity tourism tours. Sacha Wawa can welcome any person interested in discovering the Amazonian forest. The house is made out of woods and leaves, there’s no electricity because they want to live with the cycles of the sun. It’s important to add that EVERYBODY can directly help Sacha wawa. How?

  • you can come, visit and rest in Sacha Wawa center in Peru (the address is : 65km Tarapoto-Yurimaguas road, Peru). Price: 30 soles per person per day (around 7,50 Euros) included: 1 bed, breakfast, lunch and diner).
  • you can help them as voluntary people (don’t hesitate to contact Christine to the email address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). They will provide you with food and bed for 20 soles per person per day (around 5 Euros).
  • you can participate to activities organized in Peru:

o Therapeutic period fasting (yoga, meditation and shamanism discovery) 300 soles for 6 days (around 75 Euros).

o Vegetable light diet with medicinal plants: 600 soles for 6 days, 750 soles for 9 days.

o Shamanism discovery with Ayahuasca ceremony: 600 soles for 6 days.

o Yoga training (meditation and different types of yoga): 300 soles for 6 days.

o Walk of 3 hours with a guide in the jungle: 10 soles for 3Hours (around 2,50 Euros).

o Ecotourism: Sacha Wawa wants to organize in the future touristic tours which will respect the environment and the local population (for more information, don’t hesitate to contact them by email).

How will we help them?

  • We will help them by giving them money to build tree nursery. This tree nursery is a good opportunity to cultivate plants in endangered species and to sell one of them. By this way, Sacha Wawa can be financially independent. This “turnover” can help them to finance their school project and their animal reserve.
  • We will organize clothes collect in France to send them in Peru. When Sacha Wawa established the estimated budget to build the school, they included the price of new clothes for all the children. They estimated 2000 euros for the clothes. We could reduce this item to 0 thanks to this collect.
  • We will organize sport events in France to raise money and distribute it to Sacha Wawa. Our association has a humanitarian and sporty aim but once again, in this country, sport is not the priority. However we want to suggest to the Indian village (located closed to Sacha Wawa center) to develop sport activities by building sport pitches. We will keep you informed as soon as possible.

The Huichol community

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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 03:36 Written by Delphine

Our project « en piste pour le monde » was born a year ago in our mind. The project has known a lot of change thanks to a lot of people we have met since we started. We listened to a lot of advices from people who knew a lot about charities and how to help.

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We think it will continue to change in this way in order to help in the best way the people we are going to help.

That’s exactly what we had in mind when we met the « Huichols ». For the moment, we have to put on hold the “athletics” side of our project with the Huichols. After the visit we discovered that they don’t have any sport installations to do any sports. We will organize that later on.

During our week in the « Cebolleta » (name of the place), we observed a lot and talked a lot with the chief of the community in order to bring the best and the most concrete help possible.

Here are the main facts:

The school :

  • The food: the teacher told us that there are a lot of children that came to the school without eating before. The school is from 9 AM to 2 PM so some of them don’t eat until 4-5PM. We cannot really imagine make them do sport without eating before. For information, the Mexican government to help the children give them 1 liter of milk per month…
  • Lack of equipment: each pupil doesn’t have an exercice book a pen or a book to learn. The teacher will send us a list to tell us their needs.
  • Lack of clothes: they need more clothes. In fact when there it’s cold they are all sick because they don’t have the clothes necessary to fight the cold. When we were there a lot of them were sick because of that.
  • Health need: there is no medicine in this community, or in the school. For example, a child fell down when we were there. His knee was hurt and he had to walk more than 1 kilometer to get to the school…Off course his only way to get better was “time”. He has to be patient. Once again, for this reason, this is difficult to imagine developing the sport now.
The village and the « Huichol » community:

 

  • Lack of knowledge in areas. For example, they would need a doctor, or an electrician. They have the intellectual capacities to learn those areas however they don’t have the money to finance the studies.
  • An economic activity to develop. Now, their only way to make money is the Huichol arts and crafts that they sell on different markets.

 

Following the information we got we decided to do that:

Short term (6 months):

  • Give to every child the material necessary to go to the school and study normally. We bought 45 exercise books and 60 pens and pencil colors. They will receive all this stuff before the end of the year 2009. We are waiting for the teacher’s list to complete.
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  • Give an economic help to the community. In order to use this ‘help’ in the best way possible for the community they scheduled a meeting with all the people from the village. As soon as they will decide how to use the money they will tell us and we will tell you!

A medium term (1 year):

  • Create a webpage to sell the arts and crafts Huichol in France, and in the same time, give us the opportunity to develop this economic activity and get more autonomy.

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  • Organise a collect of clothes.
  • Organise a photo exhibition to sell the pictures and send the money to the community.

Long term (1 – 2 years):

  • Sponsor one child or several children in order to send them to the nearest city to study. So that all the community could benefit from the knowledge of the student. Indeed, in the Huichol community each student comes back after his studies. They don’t want to stay in the city, they always come back in their mountains.
  • Build a canteen for the children so that EVERY child could eat at school and study better.
  • Develop athletics because they have capacities and would be very good athletes!

As you can see, the most important for us is to help the community in a concrete and efficient way. We rather support local initiatives than have ambitious projects that won’t take into consideration essentials factors of the local context, economical, social and environmental.

Once again a big thank you to all of you to make this possible for them! We will regularly update this page to inform you about our actions.

 

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