Corporación Horizontes Colombianos

For the autonomy of the Indigenous People

Members

Rafael Antonio Chaparro Torres

33 year old.
Region: Tota, Boyacá, Colombia
Environmental Administrator with a Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems.
Descendant of indigenous-peasant grandparents interested in traditional communities and the millennial knowledge of Latin American ancestral peoples. Since 2009 he has participated in different initiatives and socio-community programs related to ancestral thinking, environmental education and the recognition of territories (Mayan route, Inca route). Until 2014 director of the “Pachakutia” Collective, a youth organization aimed at environmental education based on ancestral values and community art.
Volunteer member of the Corporación Horizontes Colombianos - CHC for 14 years, collaborator in management and formulation of projects, as well as in research and environmental affairs. Since June 2019 associate member and Assistent Manager of the CHC.

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Narcisa Bautista Ramos

Member of the Tikuna Ethnic Group
Bilingual student of Indigenous Politics Democratic Formation in the “Caminos de Identidad” (Trails of Identity), FUCAI. Indigenous Leader of the Community of Nazareth; of which she has been Vice-curaca, carrying out projects for the childhood, youth and women.
Active member of the Corporación Horizontes Colombianos and ACITAM.

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Laura Cristina Bahamón Villalba

Born on March 9th, 1989 in Neiva-Huila (Colombia). Bachelor in arts education and culture, pursuing specialization in childhood and youth. Linked to the educational work with children and youth of the indigenous Nasa communities in the department of Huila and Cauca, she has as well developed visual and corporal art practices focused on children with special educational needs, with an interest in the development of artistic practices and cultural factors for social transformation. Member and volunteer of the Corporación Horizontes Colombianos since 2018.

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Juvencio Manduca

Member of the Tikuna Ethnic Group.

He was born in the Nazareth Community in the Colombian Amazon on March16th. He went to primary school in the “Concentración Escolar Nazareth (CEN)” and he took the 5th grade in the Indigenous Institute San Juan Bosco.
He finished High School and afterwards he took the training course of Film & Television Production and Direction“Imaginando nuestra imagen” (Imagining our image) – INI, offered by the Ministry of Culture in the National University of Colombia – Chapter Amazon (2003). He entered the program “Education – basis for a dignified life” of the Corporación Horizontes Colombianos in 2006 and took a semester of Fundamentals in the National University of Colombia, chapter Amazon and the took the Fundamentals Semester (2007) and the pre-college course in Bogota (2007).

Due to economic difficulties, he could only take the summer middle school, however for 8 years after finishing high school he has shared his knowledge with the community, leading initiatives with the traditional authorities.
He is currently fulfilling his dream of going to Law School after joining -CHC- in January 2006 as an honorary member. Since January 2008 he is an associate and the Secretary of the CHC General Assembly.

His great effort is supported by his parents, Pedro Pereira Ramos and Ligia Manduca Guillermo, who are agricultures in the Amazon. He is also married to Luz Emerita Moran Ahue and has a son, José Camilo Pereira Moran.

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Dorothea Wolf – Nuernberg

She was born on January 9, 1962 in Germany. She has 15 years of experience working as a professional nurse. For several years she worked for and founded different non-profit organizations in her country. For 2 years she performed administrative tasks in the Israeli Embassy in Germany. She lived and worked a couple of years in Ginosar / Galilea / Israel (social volunteering). She has been living in Bogota, Colombia since 1999, where she initially taught private English and German lessons (1999-2000), afterwards she wanted to experiment in the field of audiovisual media (2000 - 2002). In October 2002 she decided to found the non-profit organization Corporación Horizontes Colombianos, whose the Legal Representative and General Director she is. She has 37 years of experience in volunteer management and being a volunteer herself. Languages: German, Spanish, English, Hebrew and French.

She is a person with a high sense of social responsibility and strongly committed with the achievement of results. She is very demanding in terms of personal growth with great abilities to work within a team; as well she has expectations for permanent progress.

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Caroline Schiller

Volunteer teacher in a Waldorf school in Bogotá (Inti Huasi, "Casa del Sol"), teaching English, German and helping in the support group, - with disabled children.

Double Degree in Business Management and Economics (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Born 20th May 1995 in Munich, Germany, though both parents are from Czech Republic. After four years of Business and Economics studies, and several jobs in that direction (including the position in Deloitte’s consultancy company in Leeds and the sales job in Zionsville, Indiana with Southwestern Advantage) she decided to step away from that world, and dedicate her coming years to projects that were not focused on finance, sales, commerce and business.

Volunteering at the Eco-farm Can Decreix (Cerbere, France) gave her the opportunity to discover economic alternatives, i.e. “Degrowth”, and movements such as Slow Food, and Foodsharing, fighting against the food waste problem and the loss of the use of local foods. Some of the other places of volunteering in Europe include the Eco Krishna Farm in Lesmahagow (Scotland), Mirapuri (in Mirapuri-Coiromonte, Italy) and Menschliche Welt (Yoga Ashram in Germany near Ravensburg), each of which helped her to find more understanding in living in harmony, community, rather than competition, - including our co-existence with nature.

Currently, the Waldorf School "Inti Huasi" (Casa del Sol) has extended and brought her focus on education, which is also her aim and passion as a member in Corporacion Horizontales Colombianos (CHC) in Colombia.

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Berthold Wolff

Born on March 2nd, 1965 in Hilden. 1984 Abitur at the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Hilden. 1989 studies of theology in Bonn and Vienna with diploma. 1992 ordination in Cologne; thereafter two chaplains of 4 years each in Brühl and Bensberg.

Since 2000 pastor at the Archbishop's St. Ursula Gymnasium and at the Elisabeth von Thüringen Realschule in Brühl. In September 2009 he was appointed parish priest in the parish of St. Maximilian Kolbe in Cologne Porz and 10 years later he was pastor of the ‘Porz broadcasting room’. Since 1993 founding member and chairman of the non-profit association for the promotion of training of young people in the Dominican Republic (AJD e.V.) As part of this activity, he has been traveling to the Dominican Republic every three years with a group of interested people since 2000.

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Arley Buitrago Landázuri

Afrodescendant, born 1985 in Bogotá. He has a degree in Social Sciences and a Master's Degree in Art Studies with experience and vocation for community work. He has worked with the School of Social Art “Videos y Rollos”, the “Entre-Tránsitos” Collective, the “Cimarron” National Movement and the “Corporación Horizontes Colombianos” (today associate member) during the last 5 years. In the constant interest to articulate cultural and community artistic processes, he has developed artistic practices such as performance and video art with a gender, intercultural and interdisciplinary approach. He has published the articles "Memories of a continued agony", "The magical religious practice of Candomblé in Bogotá" and "The schism of inhabiting a black body".

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