| Centro
Cultural Aymará, Comunicación y Desarrollo Pacha Aru |
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(Pacha
Aru Centre of Aymara Culture, Communication and Development), formed in
1982, is a grassroots organisation based in the mountainous region of
Southern Peru. Its members are Indigenous Aymará and Quechua women from
farming communities. The group aims to improve living conditions, provide
training in practical skills, encourage women’s knowledge and defense of
our own rights and rescue Indigenous customs and traditions. It
has enabled women to be more aware of the value of our work and helped to get
our own equipment and tools. It provides Andean women with a
voice of our own, helps overcome isolation and rescue our culture and
traditions, for example, through Pacha Aru's radio programme produced by
Aymará and Quechua women and broadcast in their mother tongues. Women of
different ages can describe their experiences, report instances of abuse
and mistreatment and express their demands.
Pach Aru - 12
de Octubre 2002 dia de la raza
Encuentro
Pacha Aru
May
Day proclamation from the Centro Cultural Aymara 'Pacha Aru' (Aymara
Cultural
Centre
'Pacha
Aru' ), Peru
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