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The community of Quilombo Pinhões during Covid-19 / Quilombo de Pinhões durante o Covid-19
*** this blog post is translated into Portuguese below *** In this video Débora Rodrigues shares with us a little bit about the situation at Pinhões during Covid-19. She focuses on how the community is dealing with the pandemic and helping each other to remain safe, as cases in Brazil have been sharply increasing since…
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Combate ao Coronavírus – Monitoramento comunitário Terra Indígena Xakriabá / Combating Coronavirus – Community monitoring at Xakriabá Indigenous Land
Combating Coronavirus – Community monitoring at Xakriabá Indigenous Land Among Covid-19’s many challenges, indigenous populations in Brazil are particularly vulnerable, with greater vulnerability to infectious diseases and dependent on medical system that presents problems of articulation with the state and municipal health departments. For this reason the Xakriabá People are monitoring their own territory carefully…