PRATEC

Country:
PE PERU
Submitted Films:
7
Registered since:
03.04.2009
Catalogue Url:
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Address:
Calle Martín Pérez 866, Magdalena del Mar
Lima 17, Perú
City:
Lima
Contact Person:
Nilda /Carlos Arnillas / Hurtado
Contact Email
pratec@pratec.org.pe
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Description:

ENCOURAGING BIODIVERSITY AND THE INTERCULTURALITY PRATEC is an organization without commercial profit, aiming at reinforcing Amazonian Andean culture and agriculture. It focuses its activities in Peru, and in alliance with local and international institutions it develops educational activities in Ecuador, Bolivia and the north of Argentina. PRATEC conforms a net of Nuclei of Cultural Andean Affirmation accompanying rural and indigenous communities in the execution of actions orientated to the cultural diversity in different regions of Peru. PRATEC promotes activities in four areas: · Formation of technical personnel and professionals in culture and Andean agriculture. · Coordination of programs of reinforcement of the agricultural local biodiversity. · Investigation of the culture and Andean Amazonian agriculture. · Publication and diffusion of the agricultural practices and of the Andean biodiversity.

Films in the catalogue:

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Being a wawa in the Andes / 2003

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Synopsis: The diverse world in which a child in the Andes of Peru is raised is alive. The inhabitants of the Andes are in constant conversation with the nature. The human beings produce to the nature and the nature raises the human beings. Maria Núñez de Cuchoquesera, Quispillaccta, Ayacucho, describes her life as a garden in which they find different flowers. Maria Núñez is in the same a community of flowers, not as an individual.

Loving teacher / 2003

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Synopsis: Today, the effort for understanding and to respect the visions of multiple communities in Peru, go towards reporting the topic of education. The approximation between the Andean - Amazonian community and its rural schools, is a fundamental process in which teacher and communities seek to change attitudes, to convert the school in a place in which the children learn in a nice way how to be in both worlds, the proper one and the western modern one, without eroding their cultural identity.

The ritual nurturance of the chacras in the Andes / 2003

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Synopsis: In the Andes and in Selva Alta, there are ten Centres of Cultural Andean Affirmation, NACA's, as executing units of the Project of Conservation In Situ of the Native Cultives and their homologues in the Peruvian Andes, which carry on their activities in coordination with the Andean Project of Rural Technologies, one of all 6 social institutions that intervene in this project that receives the financial support of the World Fund for Environment (FMAM) and the government of Italy, under the administration of the UNDP.

Threading Life around / 2006

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Synopsis: Majors learn organizing the 4 moments of reharmonization of the Pasha: Carnivals, Easter, Yarqa Aspiy and Christmas, when they are in charge of rituals where they converse with the deities. This conversation is an exchange of experiences and love which will serve all their life. This it is a form of learning of knowing about deepness of life, it is a form of nursing children of Huarcaya.

To encourage / 2005

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Synopsis: The FIAC, the Fund of Initiatives of Cultural Affirmation, accompanied us during three years in the recovery of the respect and of the rural trade in Ayllu. "Samaykuy-To give Breath" shows us the experience of the Nucleus of Cultural Andean Affirmation Ceprosi with the FIAC.

Walking along Corn And Bamboo / 2006

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Synopsis: ¨This corn is our Mother and we go down here from the mount to lead to our communities that stay in height. To make this corn to reach us nicely we call its soul. From bamboo, we do our instruments partying with the animals and cultives.¨, Mariano Quispe Choque of Pitumarca, Cusco's valley tells us. This video shows how the commoners of Pitumarca's valley remembered an ancient way of trade. This path was surrounded by their grandfathers before on foot and with flames and now after several years they went to exchange their cultives, meats, wools and rituals with the communities of Paucartambo's valley.

Watunakuy 2006 - Visits of Regional Brotherhood Peru - Ecuador / 2006

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Synopsis: ... For us it is the first time that we are visited by our brothers from Ecuador and St Martin, also brother country of the different communities to know our customs, gastronomy, seeds, that is how we can enrich each other with depness and respect. For those who arrived from far lands, it is a pride to have their friendship, as if we knew ourselves from before, we want that they sit down in this land, because here we all are brothers of one single land...

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