Women’s
Programs
During these past two years the Program has incorporated new women’s groups from Mapuche communities from across the county of Nueva Imperial. At present, the program is working with twenty-three groups and a total of approximately four hundred women to achieve its primary goal of both social and productive improvements to the homes of these rural families.
Principal Educational Topics:
- Mapuche Handicraft – Production, Weaving Skills, Marketing
- Vegetables – Production Skills, Marketing
- Flowers – Production Skills
- Family Health – Western and Traditional Mapuche Medicine
- Organizational Skills
- Integration into Modern Society
- Animal Health
- Chicken Farming – Production, Marketing of Eggs
- Preparation of Foods – Jams, Pickles etc.
- Grant Proposals
- Marketing Skills
Main Objectives of the Women’s Program:
-To give woman commercialization opportunities and therefore provide an income to the family.
– To provide the necessary tools for women to live more dignified lives, to develop their home activities into interesting opportunities, to improve the family health etc.
– To provide the right to have a choice in one’s own development. It is important to understand that this Program deals with people who have never been able to make a choice, because their options are so limited.
– To make the women into positive individual leaders within their communities, proud and participative. We believe that being different, and that being indigenous, is not a disadvantage, and that living differently from the majority of society is something that creates individual identity, something to be cherished.
– To generate equal opportunities amongst local society by providing education and organization for the woman.
-To incorporate all the knowledge of the Mapuche culture (health, concepts of environmentalism and cosmovision) in the program’s activities, while providing them with the basis to become integrated into modern society.
The Chol-Chol Foundation For Human Development
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