“I said that [I find it] very interesting and very important too, because we have to make this project happen, so that our State also understands what we care about. I was really moved, as a teacher, by the work of the organization. I am the father of twelve children and more grandchildren than I have now, how important fatherhood is to the Wajãpi people, right? This project for the State of Amapá is very interesting, right? And who knows, one day, we’ll take the knowledge of Wajãpi fatherhood to other states, right? Taking our projects, our books and our short videos”
VISENI WAJÃPI (Wajãpi indigenous leadership)
Since 2020, the Promundo Institute has been developing the Paternities and Early Childhood Project, financed by Porticus, in partnership with the Amapá Department of Social Development and the State University of Amapá, with the Wajãpi and Ribeirinha communities of Ilha de Santana.
On May 31st, the project team held another in-person cycle of the project, together with the Wajãpi indigenous people of Pedra Branca do Amapari, developing a workshop that was organized in two stages:
1 – intergenerational approach to parenting among community members;
2 – creation of drawings, which will become symbols on the thematic cards indicating care, daily life and paternal cultures for the community.
Around 20 Wajãpi indigenous people participated in the activity. The material developed is being systematized and will form the Thematic Letters that will be used in formal community education spaces, as well as helping non-indigenous people to better understand the aspects of fatherhood and care for that specific community.
As it celebrates its 25th anniversary, Promundo is intersectionalizing, in practice, the different forms of fatherhood and supporting such models, institutionally.
Let's go together, together and together?
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