Peru (FENMUCARINAP) (National Federation of Rural Women, Artisans, Indigenous Women, Native Women and Salaried Women of Peru)

About the School

FENMUCARINAP is a social organization of Indigenous and Native peasant women working as artisans or in agriculture, founded in 2006. They promote and defend the equal rights and opportunities for women and men, including sexual and reproductive rights and health. FENMUCARINAP focuses on food sovereignty in Peru, which champions a resilient agroecology adapted to climate change that rescues ancestral knowledge and native seeds and defends Mother Earth against destructive and polluting practices.

The objectives:

• The First National and International Camp for Indigenous Youth and the National Meeting of Rural, Indigenous, and Native Women. Young women from their grassroots organizations across the country, representing their diverse coastal, Andean, and Amazonian Indigenous or Native Peoples, will meet on August 13 and 14 to reflect and seek consensus on issues vital to their concerns, needs, and aspirations.
• As part of their 2025 Annual Operations Plan, and in line with a strategy to broaden the scope of the results of these capacity-building actions, it was decided that the delegates who were trained at these events would replicate the training in their own organizations, organizing workshops or conferences for their members on the main topics covered in the training. This requires that each base submit a training plan proposal to its assembly or board of directors and that they organize and direct it, which means that they must be given support in planning and training methodologies and, possibly, in some of the topics that will be covered in the replication.
• Launch of new agroecological production projects, supporting initiatives by women in certain regional bases.

WhyHunger has supported their training programs and youth camps with the long-term goal of establishing permanent, community-led schools for agroecological learning.

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