The Cali River needs healing and a group of women from various groups that defend gender equality will meet tomorrow to say: “Women weave our territory. We are rivers, we are basin”.
This is the message given by Nancy Faride Arias, Virginia Casasfranco, Dora Chamorro and Liliana Pardo, as well as other members of the Women’s Social Movement.
“We women say it is necessary to turn the map of the city and look at it from west to east, from where the rivers are born in the Farallones to the Cauca River, where they flow,” says Arias.
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“We say what challenges us and moves us to meet around the basins, because the basins are comprehensive, nurturing, inclusive,” adds the activist.
“The waters contain what is seen and what is not seen: surface water or rivers and also groundwater, the soil that generates food, evaporated water, the water that makes up 80 percent of our bodies, trees that give shade and protect the rivers, the stones that slow down the passage of water and allow more life to be found in the rivers”.
For this reason, this Sunday the first meeting of rural and urban women’s organizations from the water territories and the feminist and sexual diversity gathering will take place to talk about their daily lives, their adversities, how they live with the pandemic and exclusion. The appointment will be in the central park Río Cali, from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon. There will be Norma Bermúdez, and Adalgiza Charria.
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“The same basin has been cared for by the women of the townships, who, just as women give life and should not be victims of death, comments Liliana Pardo.
Although the Gender Observatory of the Government of the Valley (Ogen), reported 17 femicides between January 1 and December 31, 2021 with a reduction of 45 percent compared to 2020, the call of the groups against no More deaths or violence.
‘Violet Cali’ and ‘Vibra mujer’
Casa Matria, supported by the Mayor’s Office, also has programming for women this Sunday and on Monday with ‘Cali is painted purple’. On Sunday there will be a bicycle ride in the Jairo Varela square.
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Until this Sunday, the ‘Vibra Mujer Fair’ will be held at the La Estación shopping center, a space dedicated to the visibility and empowerment of businesswomen and entrepreneurs from Cali.
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