Runa centro para el desarrollo etnico infantil kichwa

Abstract

Runa is a Child development centre for the development of children's ethnic attitudes from Kichwa indigenous community. It`s located in Tame municipality, un Arauca department of Colombia, Kichwa community main problem is endangered language cause they don't have an ethnic educational system to their community, be either allowed to have other types of education, older grandparents who are in the community reserve they take on a task to educate children, but, they are not trained for that. They arrived at secondary educational system with a several shortcomings. Althought they are the responsible for educational issues most of the time.

But since they are not on an optimal place for this task, minors are unmotivated, most of them don't know how to speak or write Kichwa language Some of the minors understand it cause they are always listen it in their community. All of this points or leads to much more serious social conflicts, because according to indigenous rights laws, they can be denied for failing to comply with extremely they can be denied for failing to comply with extremely defined features such as language, this leads to them losing rights over the lands they inhabit and privileges With those that they currently have, the project is not only seek for the community to recover their language, it also seek to guarantee all the complements so that the children develop in an appropriate context with all the services available for an integral development in their community.