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Indigenous youth share web stories that feature their perspective on the indigenous environmental movement

Indigenous youth from Roraima, the northernmost state in Brazil, produced and launched a series of web stories that have allowed them to share their unique worldview, focusing on issues of Indigenous policy and local customs. The web series is the result of a 2020 meeting of Indigenous Journalists from the Wakywai Network, at the Center for Indigenous Formation and Culture. Nature and Culture worked alongside local organizations to carry out this project that culminated in a showcase of work on International Indigenous Peoples' Day.

The youth journalists from the Macuxi, Wapichana and Sapará peoples developed the storyboards and scripts with themes like Indigenous fish farming and traditional medicine and how these two themes relate to Indigenous land rights in Brazil.

This work showed how we can work as a team, developing our capabilities and improving our knowledge. It was not a challenge just for our group, but for ourselves [as individuals]

said Elivanilda Valerio of the Raposa 2 community in the Raposa region.

The Bem Viver project is carried out in Roraima by CIR Conselho Indígena de Roraima with the International Institute of Education of Brazil (IEB) and Nature and Culture International (NCI) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Nature and Culture's 2021 Impact Summary in Brazil

5 LOCAL COMMUNITIES SUPPORTED

4 INDIGENOUS NATIONS SUPPORTED

50,000 PEOPLE WITH NEWLY PROTECTED WATER SUPPLIES

241 PARK GUARDS & COMMUNITY MEMBERS TRAINED