The Wichi Community Centre (WCC) is a non-for-profit organisation run
by volunteers which was created in 1980 to obtain land titles for the
Wichi community and to safeguard their culture and language.
Members of the Wichi community live in Northern Argentina, Uruguay and
Bolivia. Many of them have been forced to move out of their villages
over the last few decades as their land has gradually been taken away
from them.
The Wichi Community Centre has set up a local public primary and
secondary school with teachers from the local community. They are
currently developing a community garden and offer traditional weaving
and woodwork training for youth in partnership with the local high
school. The Wichi have built a community health centre, water pumps and
other necessary infrastructure to help support the Wichi families that
are still living on the land.
The Wichi Community Centre seeks to improve educational conditions for
students from the community. With the help of SLAFF, the Wichi
community will create bilingual bibliographic material and didactic
tools to safeguard their cultural identity and history.