DONATE - COLOMBIA WAYUU GUAJIRA SCHOOL PROJECT
DONATE - COLOMBIA WAYUU GUAJIRA SCHOOL PROJECT
In 2020 Artist, mother and Guajira Native, Lido Pimienta, was contacted by a local Guajira community to help them build and and restore a small building, in the hopes of turning them into schools in the village of Villanueva and the city of Riohacha in Colombia.
The sites for the schools are located in the city of Riohacha and the in the village of Villanueva. The aim for these schools is to bring visual culture and indigenous Wayuu knowledge to local communities from Wayuu docents and practicing artists working today. We need to still raise around 500k in order to restore a nearly 100 y/o small building in Villanueva, and to build a school from scratch in a lot of land protected by the Wayuu- with local indigenous materials and sustainable architecture, to help local indigenous communities receive an education in arts development, different artist techniques, social media literacy and childcare at no cost.
La Guajira is host to Colombia’s biggest open pit coal mine in the world, El Cerrejon. The brutal extraction of coal (since 1985), has displaced entire communities, causing malnourishment, low quality public health and poor access to high education or trades that could improve their quality of life and own knowledge.
This project aims to create a cultural safe space first, but ultimately the main goal is to offer employment and foster a self sustaining community; as opposed to charity.
For any additional questions email lidopimientart@gmail.com
If you are interested in investing or donating a bigger sum for this project, or you are an architect with a project that you think would be suitable, please email us at lidopimientart@gmail.com
Thank you for supporting!
Lido Pimienta School Project Team
2023/24