Traditional People
Promundo has been expanding its work and raising awareness among financiers and partners about one of its main values: Decoloniality. We include this value, which is so important for the sustainable development of the planet, in most of our initiatives. We connect the themes that are already our pillars (such as fatherhood and care and masculinities) with a decolonial approach, broader and more diverse, considering the different territories and identities that make up our country and our culture.
In 2021, taking the new meaning of masculinity and fatherhood as our central axis, we worked together with the Wajãpi People, from Pedra Branca do Amapari, in the State of Amapá. The project aimed to create educational materials about Wajãpi culture and parenting. It was the first time that researchers from Promundo and the State University of Amapá facilitated a research process for the Wajãpi People themselves to propose narratives.
The publication that was the result of the research was produced with the leadership of the Wajãpi themselves. The Caderno Paternar Wajãpi presented fatherhood from the culture and customs of these people. And after its launch, we also made available on our YouTube channel a documentary recording and showing how the entire content production process happened, the Paternar Wajãpi Documentary .
Furthermore, we work with riverside people on Santana Island, also in Amapá, to understand and encourage local community values. This is in addition to training professionals in the health, education and social assistance sectors on the importance of valuing these values for a more humanized approach during early childhood. Dialogues were held with catraieiros, bottlers, midwives, among other community leaders so that fatherhood could be placed as a central point for development during early childhood.
These and other areas of Promundo's activities will continue to seek to expand representation in the work of the themes we work with.
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