{"id":77703,"date":"2018-04-02T16:21:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/?p=77703"},"modified":"2018-04-02T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:26:40","slug":"paraguay-mission-carried-out-6th-meeting-indigenous-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraterinternacional.org\/en\/paraguay-mission-carried-out-6th-meeting-indigenous-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay Mission carried out the 6th Meeting with the Indigenous Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Network-of-Light<\/a> group of Paraguay carried out the 6th<\/sup> Meeting of the Paraguay Mission<\/a> \u201cAwakening Seeds\u201d, in union with the Indigenous Consciousness. The activity was conducted on the weekend of the 3rd<\/sup> and the 4th<\/sup> of last March. It had the participation of 17 collaborators from the Network-of-Light of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.<\/p>\n

The volunteers visited two aboriginal communities of the department of Alto Paran\u00e1, 320 km east of Assunci\u00f3n, the capital of the country. On the first day, they were in a Mbya-Guarani village located inside the Park Moises Bertoni, in the district of President Franco, and, on the second day, they visited the Mbya-Guarani villabe \u201cYpu Pora Renda\u201d, a precarious settlement located in Ciudad del Este.<\/p>\n

In the Indigenous Community Puerto Bertoni, the visitors interacted with the natives by means of diverse services: a doctor offered health services, an Argentinian volunteer coordinated the veterinarian attendance of dogs and cats, while others offered haircut for men and hair-wash and hairdressing for the women. On Sunday, 4, the volunteers rendered the same service in the Ybu Pora Renda village, in Ciudad del Este.<\/p>\n

Donations<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In both communities, the group left a donation of food, clothes and medicines. They also gave six big pans and six ladles to proceed with the group preparation of the food. They also collaborated with the donation of zinc plate to cover the Opy (House of Prayer) of one of the communities and gave the amount necessary for the purchase of musical instruments used in the Indigenous ceremonies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach mission gives us the opportunity of really feeling fraternal and of leaving increasingly enriched\u201d, stated Laura Rodr\u00edgues, from Eldorado, Argentina. \u201cThe sensibility, humility and union among the Indigenous brothers and sisters in Puerto Bertoni is an example to follow\u201d, said Azucena Cardozo, from the Network-of-Light of Paraguay. Leandro, from Posadas, Argentina, manifested similar words: \u201cIn this place blessed by nature, we found a very special community, full of virtues, which thanks with so much love the little that we do\u201d.<\/p>\n

Indigenous purity<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThis experience touched me deeply, for [the opportunity of] feeling the purity that [the indigenous people] preserve to this day, in spite of the conditions in which they live, with so many needs\u201d, expressed Guillermo, from the province of Chaco, Argentina. \u201cI feel that in each mission we compensate in part for all the damage, discrimination and indifference for the Indigenous brothers and sisters\u201d, manifested Adriana Vallet, from Paraguay.<\/p>\n

Paraguay Mission\u00a0is part of the Mission to the Indigenous People<\/a>, a campaign of the Fraternidade \u2013 International Humanitarian Federation<\/strong>. Paraguay Mission began in June 2016, when 20 missionaries of the Fraternidade, and of the Network-of-Light of Paraguay visited, during 14 days, three Indigenous communities of Alto Paran\u00e1, bringing medical, dental, emotional and material support.<\/p>\n\n\t\t