How Can We Help??

We can help this Native Community by donations on this webpage "Cool Earth":

- They try to protect the acres form the forest, by telling people why is important to help other people, they have created a page where you can sponsor (pay for protection) a acre, and in a map you would see the tree that you are protecting. http://www.coolearth.org/400/category/protect-a-tree-181.html -Cool Earth also helps them by selling coffee, and the 90% of the money goes to the Asháninka preservation. (The coffee isn’t produced by the Asháninka.) http://www.coolearth.org/419/campaigns-40/protect-a-tree-201/cool-earth-coffee-1541.html We can also help by telling our friends, family and other people about this Native Community. So they can learn more about this and raise awareness about the other people, because we have to stop thinking about ourselves and stop been selfish in some aspects of our lifes.

Conflicts!

Political Conflicts: The governmetn took their lands without permission, the government decide to do whatever they want with their lands!

Education Conflicts: Even in this Native Community there are social status so not all of the Asháninkas receive the same education. There are only certain people that are able to access to education!

Economical Conflicts: They are exploited by the terrorist groups that are established in their lands. They don't pay them as much as they deserve of all the ours they work. There is child labour and racism, but mainly the government are forgetting them since the terrorists groups started to atack Peru.

   

Health Conflicts: When  MINSA volunteers  try to give them the medicines they need and the vaccines to prevent the epidemies, the terrorists steal everything, they let the native community suffer and die.

Organizations that help this Native Community!

Peruvian Organizations:

1.Federación ARPI (Asociación Regional de Pueblos Indígenas)

2.CARE (Central Asháninka del Río Ene)

3.CART (Central Asháninka del Río Tambo)

4.OARA (Organización Asháninka del Río Apurímac)

These organizations help them to protect their territories and also their natural resources.


5. The association ACPC (Asociación para la Conservación del Patrimonio de Cutivireni)

They help in the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage of this community.


6. MINSA: Help them by giving them vaccines and medicines to prevent jungle illness like uta, fiebre amarilla, paludismo, dengue, etc.

Other Countries Organizations:

1. Cool Earth: Fight against deforestation, they help them by selling coffee and the 90% of the money goes to the Asháninka.

2.The Rainforest Foundation UK: they give them the resources that are necessary.

--They administrate the things that other countries send to them.

-Help to get the papers, where it says what their lands are.

-They give them information about the health of women and kids.

  

Why are they at risk??

           These are some of the causes that makes Asháninka Native Community be at risk.

           Drug Trafficking:

Foreign people come to their area so they grow and produce coca. For that they need to use a long space so they need to cut the trees down, and a big quantity of chemicals products that are really dangerous for everyone. After they use all of this they just throw the garbage wherever they want.

      Migration:

Andean people occupy the Asháninka territory because they find there more rich grounds or lands for agriculture.

Wood Extraction:

There are some people that illegally cut down the trees and this affect this native community. This causes a lot of trouble because for that they need to cut a lot of trees down so they habitat is destroyed, also the wood extractors need to build roads so they can get out all the wood and this is a big risk for the Asháninka because this roads can make other people be able to enter to their territory.

 Roads:

There are more roads than before and this attracts more people so they can do tours everywhere.

The use of natural resources:

As always there are people that try to take a lot of natural resources from other places that is what is happening to the Asháninka; they don’t have the enough resources to sustain themselves.

Historical Background!

Asháninca o Asháninka people is an amazonic ethnic Group  that belongs to arawak linguistic family, used to be called “antis”,“chunchos”,“chascosos”,“campas”,“thampas”,“komparias”, “kuruparias” and “campitis”.

Through the history, they have always been characterized by a great cultural pride and protective defense of their independence, freedom and land. Nevertheless, their history is full of suffering.

At the beginning of the 2oth Century, rubber exploiters killed Asháninka people and forced a great part of this population to move to inhospitable places in the rainforest. This was just a sample of what happened during the Colony.

In the middle of the 18th Century, Juan Santos Atahualpa headed an uprising of Asháninka and other native communities against Spanish missionaries and the colonial Spanish power; much earlier than Tupac Amaru.

The last episode of their tragedy and fight for survival took place in the 2oth Century, between the end of the 8º’s and the beginning of 90’s concerning Shining Path Guerrilla. It kidnapped many Asháninka families and carried them to villages which were like concentration Camps.

Children were especially chosen to be re-educated and adults worked as slaves. Asháninkas fight for freedom so they faced subversive’s firearms with traditional arches and Arrows.

Asháninkas are the largest indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon representing the 21.89% of the total indigenous population census. Most people are young and the predominant sex is the male; being population per community is 171 people divided in houses and ages depending on the family rate.

Their houses are made of wood and sometimes palms, and most of the times are located near to the rivers so they can get their food.

Their traditional clothes are called “Cushma”, that is a piece of cloth that comes from the neck to the ankles.

The agriculture is their principal economic activity, they grow banana, maize, sweet potato, fruits, citrus, pine apple, sugar cane, beans, rice, etc.

  

The Asháninka Native Community Reserve it’s located in Cordillera of Vilcambamba, in Satipo province, in Junín department.

Hey guys we just wanted to thank you all for entering to our new blog. This blog is going to be about the Asháninka Native Community.
We need to teel you about this because we want you to raise awareness and respect about what is going around us, and the people that need our help.

In this blog you are going to learn about...

...Historical Background.
...Why are they at risk?
...Conflicts.

...Organizations that help this Native Community.

Welcome to our blog!!!