The Mesoamerican Leadership School provided a workshop to update files to young people in the process of training in the Territorial Council Auya Yari, belonging to the Honduran Mosquitia. This activity took place on April 8 and 9 with 26 participants made up of young people, managers, and facilitators, thanks to funds from the Euroclima and Build project.
According to Briggith Allen, facilitator of the Mesoamerican Leadership School in La Mosquitia, this is the first workshop held after almost a year of inactivity due to the Pandemic, to reactivate this type of initiative. “We practically had no activity in 2020, we were in silence, these quarries were there, without any action, so the idea is to reactivate the process to continue walking little by little, always in the same direction of the training school”.
“This is the first start-up workshop we want Auya Yari to be the reference because we are talking about the city, from here we can get many products and we think that with Auya Yari we can do great things, that is the initial idea of this activity” commented Allen.
In the workshop, they collaborated with 20 young people from the Auya Yari quarry, a young representative of the board of directors of the MASTA Youth network and four directors, as he believes that all coordination should be through them, “the directors have to be a support in the process of the Training School in each Territorial Council”.
Allen highlighted that the Territorial Council Auya Yari has nine communal councils which are: Puerto Lempira, all of Tansing Island, Parada, Walpata, Cocota, Palkaka, Awas Pahni, and Auratá. Currently, there is youth representation at the territorial level and representation in the nine communal councils.
The health emergency and hurricanes have impacted the socio-cultural and economic dynamics of the region, and indigenous and local communities have been the most affected. Given the situation, during 2020, the School has worked on a digital platform to monitor in real-time the effects of hurricanes IOTA and ETA.
This platform will consist of the Mesoamerican Leadership School website, a learning and information module that will allow young people to continue their training remotely, a monitoring module where they can observe in real-time and geolocated the results of the School’s work, and finally, an application where all this information can be accessed from mobile devices.
About the “school without walls”
The Mesoamerican Leadership School is a “school without walls”, which has an innovative model for its pedagogical philosophy and transformative education approach adapted to communities. Its main objective is to strengthen leadership and capacity building in community-based and indigenous organizations.
Its challenge is the formation of young women and men as leaders with human value, capable of igniting and transcending that higher ideal with which the organizations to which they belong were formed. It works with the person, not so that they learn mechanically about a subject, but so that they recognize themselves, reconstruct themselves, and can base their conduct on an effectively communitarian approach. The School seeks to form young leaders who contribute to face the challenges of their communities.
