9000 indigenous kids will "learn by playing"

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9000 indigenous kids will "learn by playing"

Summary

Support the preservation of Yaqui and Mayo languages, two ethnic groups from Sonora, Mexico, and over 9000 kids will learn and practice their mother tongue helped by their bilingual mentors read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $690 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

When an ethnic group starts losing their language, they begin to lose their identity too and soon the culture is dead, causing sometimes social problems (drugs, alcoholism, gangs). This is why in our program learning by playing we support different ethnic groups in the preservation of the language starting with little kids, we have done 6 articles as didactic material that help the bicultural mentors, to teach the kids their maternal language with the goal of preserving their cultural identity.

Activities

With the elaboration of this didactic material the native teachers will have a tool that's going to help them to carry on programs for the preservation of the yaqui and mayo languages and also the entire society will have a view of these cultures.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $690

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $690. The original project funding goal was $10,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project is going to provide 257 schools with didactic materials that will help them to participate in the XXI century without loosing their important heritage.

Project Message

Yaqui and mayo kids will be able to reach information on their own language and at the same time reassure and be proud of their cultural identity and values.
- Manuel Moroyoqui, yaqui teacher, Coordinator of PETY, yaqui teacher's organization

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Maria Inmaculada Puente Andres,
Manager
Ave. de anza #900
Col. Pitic
Hermosillo, Sonora 83150
Mexico
52 662 2104081
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Lutisuc Asociación Cultural I.A.P
Ave. de Anza #900 Col. Pitic
LaFontaine
Hermosillo, Sonora 83150
Mexico
+52(662)2104081
http://www.lutisuc.org.mx

Learn more about Lutisuc Asociación Cultural I.A.P and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Mexico and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 05, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 10, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

News from Sonora Mexico

By Maria Inmaculada Puente A. - Lutisuc Manager, August 05, 2008 07:10 PM

We have excellent news!! Thanks to all of you, our friends and sponsors, the CD Ili Usi Bwikam (children singing- in yaqui language) has been giving to teachers of the 257 indigenous schools of the Yaqui area. The joy and simplicity of these naive music and lyrics, act like a fun bridge between cultures. Laura Molina, yaqui teacher and singer guide in this project has said “Our kids will have a wonderful time singing along together” and Manuel Moroyoqui, coordinator of PETY (Yaqui tribe teacher’s organization) says: “Thanks to all the friends of the Yaqui Tribe who help us to bring a fun time to our children and a way to learn about our language for all other kids”.

Concerning the other material of our project, we’re very pleased to inform you that it’s ready and on its way to be printed!! As you remember they’re going to be two: a story and a coloring book, in Mayo language and Spanish. Instead of that, as second thoughts, we decided to create The Yoreme Mayo Marathon!! A bilingual board game with 240 questions about the Mayo history, culture and tradition, that the kids, and adults why not?, can play in teams over and over. An NGO from Spain is helping us to print it. That’s why, now our new project is with the Kickapoo People of Sonora. We invite you to take a look of it.

This group has an interesting history; Kickapoo means “stands here and there” and since the XVII century began a long journey south from the Great Lakes area in North America. Some of them arrived in Sonora a hundred years ago, and time and distance from the mother land have bring them to a delicate position: soon they will forget who they are… they’re going to loose their identity. Something it has to be done.

This August we’re sponsoring an artistic stimulation workshop with Kickapoo kids in –Tamichopa, Bacerac- their community, a tiny little town in northeast Sonora, Mexico. And with their drawings and paintings we’ll design a lottery and a memory game, where you could find animals, colors, the people, the family and the traditions, in the three languages use by the Kickapoo people: Kickapoo, English and Spanish. Later on, we’ll send you another update with the latest news!

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