The rector of the Universidad del Magdalena, Pablo Vera, awarded the Sierra Nevada scholarship to the graduate of the Economics Program, Sonia Ati Gúndiwa Villafaña Mejía, a member of the Arhuaca indigenous community, to pursue a Master’s Degree in Sustainable Territorial Development.
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The Sierra Nevada Scholarship for Master’s and Doctorate studies was regulated through Academic Agreement No. 24 of 2021, in order to contribute to strengthening interculturality and recognition of the nation’s ethnic and cultural community.
Ati is a person who has been characterized in his time at the University for his commitment and dedication
For the first time, this certification is conferred on a native peoples woman of the Colombian Caribbean.
“Ati is a person who has been characterized in his time at the University by his commitment and dedication, not only with his professional training, but also with trying to lead the University, expand it and turn it towards the Sierra Nevada, in particular towards his community” Vera pointed out.
The rector noted that perhaps the delivery of the Sierra Nevada scholarship will become the first stone of that space and center of training, construction and interculturality of the encounter between two worlds.
With this initiative, learning will be allowed to indigenous peoples and the transfer of academic knowledge learned to ethnic groups by a member of the same community, according to the manager.
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This was the reaction of the beneficiary
I have a huge responsibility on behalf of the University and I as a voice carrier of the territory
The alma mater awarded Sonia Ati Gúndiwa Villafaña Mejía the Sierra Nevada scholarship, as an opportunity, since it contributes to the study, preservation and dissemination of the knowledge of the ethnic groups and cultures that contribute to the Colombian Nation, in particular of the Caribbean region, precisely to attend the Master in Development Sustainable Territory.
“I have a huge responsibility on the part of the University and I as a voice carrier of the territory. We are not starting from scratch, but with an already advanced process and, as a merit of that process, this master’s degree is coming to another level”, said Sonia Ati Gúndiwa.
Likewise, Gúndiwa Villafaña indicated that they are many young people of the indigenous communities that want and aspire to enter a house of studies like this institution.
“It is not only to do an undergraduate, but this allows us to dream of a postgraduate degree, in this case a master’s degree and later I will surely continue on my path of what I have proposed with respect to research,” he pointed out.
The Sierra Nevada Scholarship is aimed at members of the native peoples of the Colombian Caribbean, such as: the Kogui, Arhuacos, Wiwa, Wayú, Kankuamos, Chimilas, Zenú, Yukpas, among other indigenous Caribbean ethnic groups recognized by the Ministry of the Interior.
Roger Urieles
For THE WEATHER Santa Marta
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