SARAYAKU WOMEN

Sarayaku in her memory carries the women's struggle to build a community life plan. They have shared it with their daughters and sons from stories by the fire.

The world knows about Sarayaku's struggle through the voices of the women who have walked alongside their people.

The women of the Kichwa Native People of Sarayaku have played a crucial role in the resistance of their community against attempts to extract the energy wealth hidden in the bowels of their ancestral territory. Always situated in the front line of the marches, carrying their babies on their backs or in their wombs, the warmies (women in the Kichwa language) have raised their voices to say “No!” to extractivism and patriarchy. It is the double struggle of the indigenous women of Sarayaku, determined to resist both the oil exploitation intended by the Ecuadorian State and the ancestral patriarchy that they face in their community.