Accompanying the Pro-Indigenous Consortium of Colombia

The Pro-Indigenous Consortium of Colombia is comprised of organizations that support a network of protestant indigenous leaders from different regions around Colombia. Through its participation in the Consortium, Wájaro is:

1) Building relationships with protestant indigenous leaders, with the aim of identifying and supporting different projects in their communities.

2) Supporting initiatives that foment greater community and solidarity between indigenous groups on a national and regional scale around common challenges and shared experiences.

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The Pro-Indigenous Consortium of Colombia is comprised of national and international non-governmental organizations that support a network of Christian protestant leaders from different regions around Colombia. Through indigenous and non-indigenous joint efforts, the stated aim of the consortium is to strengthen and equip the indigenous church and its leaders.

The consortium, though in its initial phase of development, has approximately 25 member groups that are engaged in different kinds of work all across Colombia. The Wájaro Foundation is one the consortium’s newest members and sees its participation as a strategic space to build relationships with indigenous leaders from around the country, hear about the different processes going on in their communities, and to identify, develop and support various projects.

The following points explains how Wájaro is accompanying the Pro-Indigenous Consortium of Colombia:
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Building relationships with protestant indigenous leaders, with the aim of identifying and supporting different projects in their communities.

Currently Wájaro is evaluating the feasibility of different project proposals that have been submitted to the Consortium. The proposals come from over 29 different indigenous groups, and range from assisting the church to accompany displaced indigenous communities in Bogotá, to helping to develop a cacao business with indigenous groups in the Choco pacific region of Colombia. In order to effectively assess a handful of prioritized project ideas, Wájaro is currently visiting potential project sites and in the process of getting to know the context, the communities, and their respective ideas. Ultimately Wájaro plans to launch two or three new long-term partnerships in the coming year.

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Supporting initiatives that foment greater community and solidarity between indigenous groups on a national and regional scale around common challenges and shared experiences.

More specifically, through its participation in the Consortium, Wajaro seeks to support initiatives that create space for indigenous groups to come together and read their respective contexts, so that potential spontaneous, non-prescribed responses can arise, and add to the network of relationships between indigenous groups in order to strengthen grassroots movements and political power.