An indigenous woman load to its baby while she reviews the sweepings in Exchange. Photo William Urdaneta

Marks David Valverde
mdvalverde@correodelcaroni.com

The right decision was taken when the title of “Day of the Race” by “Day of the Indigenous Resistance” changed to the 12 of October. Better it could not be, because the name, indicates Carlos Corinaldesi, it reflects the reality faithfully.

“It is spoken of which it has been dignificado to the natives, who are our ancestors and today she says that it is the Day of the Indigenous Resistance. It is truth: they not only must hold what they held before, they mistreated when them, but must hold many more. They must resist enough”, sentences.

Outside ironies, Corinaldesi, director of Are Me to the Foundation To eat, explains what in fact it happens to 10 minutes of Ordaz Port, in the community Warao de Cambalache, where the week that happened two children passed away whom they had to be buried on the foot of a tree: there was medical aid no to avoid the death of the infants, there was aid of no no class to transfer corpses, and, until yesterday, some was uprising of governmental no being.

“In fact, it seems to me a shame which we are living. He is something incredible to have to bury two babies underneath a bush”, refers the director of the Foundation, that serves welfare in Exchange.

Thousand times warned
The members of the Committee of Health of the Foundation Are To eat, give account to Me on the diseases that the children suffer who live in Exchange, many of which they are fed with rest of food which they find in the garbage dump. Those cases multiply more and more.

“We have come observing that are much diarrhoea and vomits. Saturday at night the 1-7-1 took to six children with that problem. We came giving account from which medecines that we gave them to not did effect them, and wanted to know if what had he was bacterial, or an intestinal infection parasitic”, emphasizes Paola Garci'a, member of the committee.

The costs of the examinations that must practice them to more than 180 children, have been the impediment with which the Foundation has run into.

“If we as personal of health cannot attack those diseases and the ambulatory center that is there is taking care of as it is, the amount of children with diarrhoea, vomit, undernourishment and dehydration will continue growing”, notices Carlos Rivero.

Part and part
Ana de Corinaldesi, member of the board of directors Is to Me To eat, indicates that, although to a lesser extent, the cultural barriers are another one of the incentives of the problem.

“We tenth them (to the waraos) that are modules there and that they must approach, and that take to the children because they have a doctor. They are very obstinate, but we must remember that it is very difficult that they do I sacrifice to go to a hospital”, stands out.

Beyond everything, Carlos Corinaldesi aims that the governmental beings have not put the persistence that, considers, requires the case.

“They do not worry as it would have. The babies rotted there they had and them to bury express. If then it is not the hand that corresponds, it seemed that less they are interested in helping them with operative. The operative ones make the Red Cross or other organizations. The certain thing is that this was the overflow”, concludes.

The call: to collaborate

“It is not only tried to say: `pobrecitos those kids who murieron'. It is not only to lament itself, because in this case one must have a hand in the heart and another one in the pocket”.

That way the call synthesizes Carlos Corinaldesi that, from Is Me to the Foundation To eat, sends to all Guayana City: to collaborate with the community Warao de Cambalache.

Through that organization, it is possible to help depositing contributions in current account 0157-0022-03-3822003061, of the bank Of the South, to name of the Foundation Is to Me To eat, RIF: J-30707748-4.

Also, it is possible to be collaborated with anyone of the following medecines: Flegyl, Amoxicilina, Metrodinazol, Sultamicilina, Bacitracina, Rifocina, Terramicina, Ambroxol, Clembuterol, Loratadina, Desloratadina, Fluconazol, Clotrinazol, Terbinafina, Somergan, Betadine, Acetaminofén, Ibuprofeno, Diclofenac, alcohol and oxygenated water.

Warao dies another boy

Natalie Garci'a

A new deceased registered itself in the community Warao de Cambalache. The victim comprised of the 22 infants who have been identified with symptoms of marked undernourishment and which they would be in risk because of the lack of welfare medical attention, that from October the natives suffer.

The fact happens right one week after the first death, a girl of 2 añitos that next to a baby of a year were buried under a handle tree, after which familiar and close friends resorted to the authorities to ask for the exoneration in the payment of the graves in the Municipal Cemetery, the donation of the ballot boxes and the facilitation of a transport to take them to the cementery in San Felix.

The informal burial of the cuerpecitos was Wednesday and to this date the municipality has still not offered answers far from it an uprising on the matter.

The community, conformed by 86 families, is in favor very annoying and indignant of the happened thing. Pedro the Rose, captain of the sector, reiterated that what more hurts to them is that the victims of the lack of attention are the children who suffer for more than 11 years, time that takes better installed in the zone after their exit of the sewers in Amacuro Delta in search of a destiny.

Although until now they do not have raised action, the natives will look for the form to make arrive its reclamation at the institutions, in first instance to the Mayorship of Caroní, to which they ask for less policy and more doing to him in favor of the improvement of the quality of life of communities like these, that as soon as they subsist of the recycling of the remainders in the garbage dump Exchange in the middle of a sea of needs.