Yoemiata Ania Nawa (Our Origin)

The ocean is our grandmother. We do not know since when the World was covered with water. Even the mountains could not be seen, there was only water in the World. The Moon is our Mother. The Sun is our Father. Sun and Moon always have existed. But long time ago, at the bottom of the sea was everything and until now some beings stay there. Fish, plants, human beings, tortoises, vipers, horses and until today some stay down there. Arrived a time when the water went down and the land appeared.

The project was facilitated by InsightShare as part of the conversation with the earth project. Conversations with the Earth is a collective opportunity to build a global movement for an indigenous-controlled community media network. CWE works with a growing network of indigenous groups and communities living in critical ecosystems around the world, from the Atlantic Rainforest to Central Asia, from the Philippines to the Andes, from the Arctic to Ethiopia. Through CWE, these indigenous communities are able to share their story of climate change. Through the creation of sustainable autonomous indigenous media hubs in these regions, CWE fosters a long-term relationship with these communities, based on principles of local control and supporting indigenous media capacity.

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