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Persons with disabilities in Amazonian Indigenous territories have historically been rendered invisible in community planning processes, leadership roles, and access to fundamental rights. In many cases, they have not been recognized as active members of their communities, and their experiences have been excluded from traditional systems and Indigenous health structures.
With the support of the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA), Sinergias is working to change this reality by strengthening the leadership of Indigenous persons with disabilities and promoting their participation in governance and decision-making spaces. This project seeks to build a community inclusion model grounded in local realities, one that can be replicated in other Amazonian territories.
Through community gatherings, participatory workshops, and research processes led from within the territories, we promote the creation of support networks, the recognition of traditional caregiving practices, and the development of person-centered life plans. At the same time, we work to incorporate the disability perspective into Life Plans and the Indigenous System of Own and Intercultural Health (SISPI), as well as into Sinergias' institutional policies.
This project also strengthens the work of the “Luz Propia” Core Group, composed of Indigenous persons with disabilities in Mitú, who lead training, advocacy, and community support processes. Together with them, we move forward with an inclusion strategy that dignifies, recognizes, and empowers the role of persons with disabilities in the social and political life of their communities.