Chiri Wayrita: The voice of the voiceless. A transformative education experience for the children of Cerro Rico (Bolivia)

Abstract

For a decade, the University of Burgos, through the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization and Cooperation, and the Center for Cooperation and Solidarity Action, is committed to a series of educational and health projects in Bolivia, specifically in the Department of Potosí. Throughout these years, students and teachers of different degrees have participated in an experience that has changed our worldview by approaching cultures that survive individualism, reification and depersonalization, pillars of wild neoliberal capitalism, empowering and strengthening the feeling of community. Living with the Andean, Quechua and Aymara peoples, participating in their own education models in schools as complex and beautiful as Robertito, built in the heart of one of the most terrible mines on the planet, the Sumaq Orcko, has made us acquire a new and enriching vision of the world from a worldview revealing to us by the principles of solidarity and reciprocity upon which it has been built (Fernández Malanda, D. in Cifuentes García and Gómez Campelo, 2016: 121).

Keywords

• niños, niñas y adolescentes trabajadores
• explotación infantil
• mina
• escuela robertito
• protagonismo infantil