Christina Haverkamp
Christina Haverkamp (born September 6, 1958 in Nordhorn ) is a German human rights activist and educator.
Life
The sports and mathematics teacher has been campaigning for the endangered Yanomami Indians in the rainforests of Brazil and Venezuela since 1989 , which she visited for the first time in 1990 together with survival expert Rüdiger Nehberg . She organized the construction of schools and health stations in the rainforest . Every year she commutes between Europe and the Amazon region and gives lectures, for example at Harvard University in Boston , USA. She lives in Blumenthal , Amt Molfsee , in Schleswig-Holstein.
Act
In 1992 Christina Haverkamp and Rüdiger Nehberg crossed from Dakar in Senegal from the Atlantic to Fortaleza in Brazil on a self-made bamboo raft to draw attention to the oppression and miserable living conditions of the Indian population. The company was also intended as a protest drive on the occasion of the discovery of America 500 years ago.
In 2006 she founded the Yanomami-Hilfe eV association. With it, she supports the Yanomami in setting up health centers and organizing them. The Yanomamis nicknamed her "Kohiba", which means "hard bean", because of her unwavering and persistent demeanor.
In 2002 she accompanied Papius chief Joao-Davi Maraxi to the “World Congress of Indigenous Peoples” at the UN in New York , where he gave a speech.
Awards
- 1998: Foresight Prize for Human Rights (Frankfurt)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Indian blood flows through their veins on Yanomami-Hilfe.de. Retrieved May 17, 2013
- ↑ a b Info school lecture with curriculum vitae (PDF; 148 kB) on Yanomami-Hilfe.de. Retrieved May 17, 2013
- ↑ Christina Haverkamp: Years of commitment to the Yanomami on Turnus.net
- ↑ Bamboo raft trip on Yanomami-Hilfe.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haverkamp, Christina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German human rights activist and educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhorn |