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San Pedro Agricultural SchoolIndios Reserve – Rio Andirà – Amazon Forest – Brazil, the “San Pedro” |
| Agricultural School was born in the heart of an
indigenous reserve in the Amazon forest in 1988 by a missionary of
the P.I.M.E., father Enrico Uggé and by the local Indios community.
Initially for twenty students, it was intended to guarantee a basic
scholastic instruction together with the knowledge of methods of land
cultivation and raising livestock in harmony with the surrounding
environment. The school, originally a rudimentary construction in clay and wood, today is growing and becoming an important reality for the local community of approximately 8000 Sateré-Maué Indios. Through the process of the education of their children, the Indios are beginning to see a viable and valid alternative to abandoning their own land which is an easy target for speculation by wealthier and more powerful classes, as well as an alternative to the ancestral methods of survival based on hunting and fishing. Today the San Pedro school, which is located in the heart of the indigenous reserve along the Rio Andirà river approximately one day’s journey from Berrerinha, welcomes sixty students. With the help of local teachers, it offers the young Indios schooling through the fifth grade, including fundamentals of agriculture and a particular focus on the history, artisan crafts, and original language of the indigenous populations. Instruction of the original language is done side by side with the instruction of Portuguese. With savings offered by Sibylle, who passed away on 5 July 2000 taking with her the dream of helping these populations, we have already contributed to the construction of new classrooms, a refectory, and a first dormitory for the students who, given the distance from their own villages, live in the school community. The Butterfly Foundation intends to carry this initiative forward counting on the contribution of individuals sensitive the to issues of elementary education for Indios children, in order to raise Euro 30000 necessary to complete the project and Euro 65000 which is necessary for annual management of the school. “In this way - the Bishop of Parintntins, Don Giuliano Frigeni said at the beginning of our involvement in this project - we can explain to our children that are on this earth and in the heavens that there are people who want to not only protect the Amazon forest, but first and foremost that want these children to be given the opportunity to grow up in an environment which may be difficult but not an enemy to man.” |
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