📋 Tender Overview
Arequipa and Pasco were the scene of major meetings of the Intervention of Productive Knowledge.Nearly 900 Pension 65 users participated in the productive knowledge meetings held in Caylloma (Arequipa) and Oxapampa (Pasco), where they passed on to the new generations their culinary secrets and how they make ancestral weavings, with the aim of strengthening the cultural identity of their communities.
In Chivay (Caylloma) the II Provincial Meeting: Revaluing our patron saint festivities was held, where 650 senior citizens from 20 districts participated. The main activity revolved around a traditional dishes contest, accompanied by festive dances.
Julio Mendigure, executive director of the Pension 65 program, highlighted the importance of revaluing the knowledge of users in different fields, such as gastronomy, where they also recovered traditions, recipes and memories in each flavor.
The event was attended by Alfonso Mamani Quispe, provincial mayor of Caylloma, as well as the municipal authorities of the local governments that participated.
Pasco Fabrics
In the province of Oxapampa, the First Meeting of Crafts and Ancestral Knowledge: Fabrics and Textiles Dyed by Older Adults was held, with the aim of promoting one of the most emblematic activities of Pasco.
More than 230 users from Oxapampa, Chontabamba, Pozuzo, Palcazu, Villa Rica and Constitucion participated in the activity. Jimmy Carhuaricra, head of the Territorial Unit of Pension 65 in Pasco, highlighted the patience and dedication that the users have to do the embroidery on the fabrics, in addition to the detail they put into each dyeing of fabrics.
They have demonstrated artisanal dyeing techniques from the Tsachopen community, led by the user Rosario Colinas Charito, such as the preparation of natural dyes with the use of bark, fruits or roots. At the end, there was a fashion show with the pieces that were made, he added.
