We are a Peruvian non-profit association created in 1998 that promotes social justice and human dignity through the promotion of human rights, especially better health conditions, gender equity and sustainable management of natural resources.

• WHAT WE BELIEVE IN
  
  We seek to contribute to strengthening the capacities of rural indigenous and/or riverine women, and their use of communication means and technologies, so that they promote the full exercise of their rights on the basis of the affirmation of their worth and positive recognition of the diversity of gender, race and culture.

• OUR TOOLS
  
  Communication and training strategies.

• WITH WHOM DO WE WORK
  
  With women and their families in rural communities in the Amazon.

• OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
  

(1)    The radio program “Welcome Health”, the main tool of Minga Perú, is heard in Loreto and 4 departments of the Peruvian Amazon for more than 120,000 listeners.

(2)     In 10 years Welcome Health has broadcasted more than 1,100 editions and has received more than 9,000 letters from listeners, correspondents and community promoters giving their opinions on topics of interest for their communities. The program has become a public forum for dialogue and information, as well as a complaint and public scrutiny mechanism.

(3)   There are four promotions of women who nowadays are leaders in their communities, where they participate in the public sphere, executing public positions and promoting their economic, social and cultural rights.

(4)    56 young radio correspondents have been trained and are driving the promotion of gender equity, health and  human rights in schools and with groups of women in their communities.

(5)    A women network has been created and is made up of 500 women who are continuosly trained by 50 leading promoters for the development of productive projects that generate additional cash income through the installation and operation of fish farms, agroforestry farms, poultry modules and handicraft initiatives.

(6)    120 teachers and 1200 students from 28 schools, have been trained in health, HIV/AIDS, human rights  and violence prevention issues and now they promote communal activities on these issues.

(7)    Minga Peru develops communication methodologies which have been shared with 124 members from 60 social organizations from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, the United States and Chile that work on education, environment, consumer protection, communications, and human rights topics.

(8)    Minga is member of the Bureau of Native Populations of the Amazon on STIs, HIV/Aids, which comprises 7 CSOs, its divisions and units.

(9)    Minga Perú has contributed to the better understanding of reproductive health in the Amazon by creating such as the First International Forum “Reproductive Health in the Amazon: Perspectives from Culture, Gender and Communication”.

(10)    Minga Perú has helped to create an Amazonian space for debate and public participation which seeks to develop a non-discriminatory proposal that combines communications, culture and human rights.”