New YouTube video: Interview with indigenous health worker

Interview with Celina Gonçalves Chamorro, indigenous health worker

Celina Gonçalves Chamorro is an indigenous health worker. She is a Guarani-Kaiowá herself and lives in the village of Arroyo-Corá. This means she is always close to the people, knows them well and knows how they are doing. This enables her to take good care of them, give the doctors important additional information and keep an eye on the patients and their treatment. She also speaks the local language perfectly and can act as an interpreter in the event of communication problems.

Celina has agreed to talk about her work in the infirmary. Among other things, she talks about what has changed for the Guarani-Kaiowá with the construction of the infirmary, what her day-to-day work looks like and what she likes best about her job.

*This is because Arroyo-Corá is located on the border with Paraguay. The borders are relatively open, making it difficult to control. Ultimately, they are one people, the Guarani-Kaiowá people. This leads to the mixing of the two nations. All indigenous people are treated at the TARGET clinic, regardless of their nationality.

The translation has been prepared as faithfully as possible. Some words have been added so that the statements can also be understood by people without background or contextual knowledge.

More about our infirmary at the Guarani-Kaiowá