Background/History:
In the year 2008, I had the blessing to participate as a volunteer, photographer and collaborator of the video of the experience: "Un Regalo para un Amigo" ("A gift for a friend"), A non-profit organization created by Nahury Escalona, Anavict Romero, Ludmila Loginow y Mónica Marrero, Those who together with a number of volunteers were committed to helping people in street, which together with an extensive volunteer, who free of charge and aimed at humanitarian aid, collected and delivered donations during several days in the city of Caracas, in some car´s caravans and reaching hard-to-reach areas, the slopes of the Guaire´s River, some very low-income communities, improvised in the sector of "Los Chaguaramos" and in other areas of the capital, at the end of that experience, after its dissemination and the success of the same, I was in love with that philanthropic work and decided to continue on my account but focused on the area of children with cancer and indigenous children in the streets.
But already had developed since I was a child, my parents took me in their wisdom to donate and give away my toys in very good condition and after a time they have been used in different communities in Guárico state (a farm sector place in the middle of the country), where live low-income children who did not have the chance of getting toys, continuing a tradition that my parents had when theirs are children too in 40´s, they participate in car´s caravans giving toys, clothes and food to low-income people throughout the national territory, together with their families, organized in cars and bringing them into a kind of celebration, this did usually in times season, annually since the 40's to the 80's and then in the 90's when I was a little kid.
In 1999, when i had 18 years old, I had studied at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - UCAB, (Informatic engineering), we studied some social matters that were involved with the issue of social problems and the relevant aid on the part of civil associations, government bodies, ong´s and individuals, as well as photographic courses between the years 2004/2005, dictated by the photographer Pablo Arza Tizmon, In the School of Sociology, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, in UCV: Central University of Venezuela. These photography clasess, covering both the basic learning, digital retouching, the portrait and the documentary genre. It is in this last category that is part of my research/foundation, as the genre is about a series of documentary images covering social issues, either as a complaint, as a witness to a specific topic to treat (social, cultural, anthropological field work or of any specific social science, which are realities sometimes very raw and extreme poverty, crisis, social chaos, homelessness, etc.) and also traveling the length and breadth of the country in various indigenous communities in a number of places here_ Monagas, Mérida, Amazonas, Táchira, Zulia, Barinas, Guárico, Anzoátegui, Lara, Coro, Bolívar, Sucre, Aragua, Carabobo, etc.
I also identify a lot with some patients, as in my personal case many people know all the things that have happened in my life, accidents such as the bus passed over my legs in 1999, the fall of the paragliding (2006) and the double column operation and radiation treatments for aggressive fibromatosis two tumors (at the lumbar level, which were i removed by operations performed during the years 1995-1996, and 25 sessions of radiotherapy in 1997), the fall of a horse when he was 7 years of age on the farm of my family iin Guarico State, among other things, but I have always promoted a desire to overcome my own limitations and fears, and give the maximum of Myself, grateful that I was able to walk again after many trials, in addition with my trips to the Gran Sabana place and Amazonian forest, and other amazing places across the country, researching on the ethnic-themed, doing field work, seeing the need of our peoples, their sufferings in their sacred areas. An advice to you, when you are travel into their ancestral areas and their land, collaborate with them to buy handicrafts and ensuring that they have money for their livelihood; in the same way, if you see some homeless indigenous people asking for contributions of food, money or clothing in the street, help them, the best gift of life if help others people while we can do it.
Some medical Informs about my health situation:
Between the year 2002/2003, i had the experience of work in "Programa de Pensamiento Visual PPV" (Visual Thinking PPV Program, MoMA's Visual Thinking Curriculum Project), suported by our "Museo de Bellas Artes" (Museum of Fine Arts) in collaboration with the MOMA (Museum of Contemporary Art of New York), the "Cisneros Foundatión" and the "Alejandro Otero Museum", which gave me the opportunity to monitor various educational activities in the area of art and create painting and music workshops, as a way of addressing the social and artistic projects in low-income schools, with the aim of bringing them closer to the museums and integrate their communities in the art studio. At the same time also giving classes to children in the areas of music and plastic that i gender awareness in the area of pedagogy and social collaboration.
Later than this experiences, I try to continue by mi side but focus in help some children with cancer and indigenous children living on the streets, in addition to the beginning of the year 2012 perform a diploma in the "Defensoria del Pueblo" school about the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and as a result have been Professor in the Area of Human Rights of Unes (National Experimental University of Police Force), both during the year 2012.
In that years, my foundation project even without a real name yet, it had taken shape. At the end of the same year perform the donation of my hair (also some toys and clothing) to children with cancer, they need to develop after the loss of hair lace wigs for chemotherapy treatments, and using my Facebook account for spread the information. This donation which motivated other people to donate hair and toys, clothing and medicine, which incredibly was quite well received the proposal and understand the impact of this social network, (as well as Instagram) To convene people who donated and would do its part by placing your grain of sand to collaborate with these fragil people in such a delicate situation, and from that moment, the beginning of the year 2013 would constitute the name of the foundation: Unknown Heroes. It should be noted that during the 5 previous years my person had made various donations during the year to various indigenous communities and in several cities of the national territory, but it was not until 2013 that was consolidated the foundation, in the same way took as its point of departure the year 2008, since from that year with "Un Regalo para un Amigo" (A gift for a friend) and other subsequent donations that make by my side but i had already the idea, the spirit, the organization, the collection and delivery of donations, the only thing that varied in 2013 was simply put the name, therefore, 8 years of donating and be committed to social causes, both my person, like many other collaborators and volunteers, who have had the opportunity to share this experience and to make donations and even take them with me.
But already had developed since I was a child, my parents took me in their wisdom to donate and give away my toys in very good condition and after a time they have been used in different communities in Guárico state (a farm sector place in the middle of the country), where live low-income children who did not have the chance of getting toys, continuing a tradition that my parents had when theirs are children too in 40´s, they participate in car´s caravans giving toys, clothes and food to low-income people throughout the national territory, together with their families, organized in cars and bringing them into a kind of celebration, this did usually in times season, annually since the 40's to the 80's and then in the 90's when I was a little kid.
In 1999, when i had 18 years old, I had studied at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - UCAB, (Informatic engineering), we studied some social matters that were involved with the issue of social problems and the relevant aid on the part of civil associations, government bodies, ong´s and individuals, as well as photographic courses between the years 2004/2005, dictated by the photographer Pablo Arza Tizmon, In the School of Sociology, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, in UCV: Central University of Venezuela. These photography clasess, covering both the basic learning, digital retouching, the portrait and the documentary genre. It is in this last category that is part of my research/foundation, as the genre is about a series of documentary images covering social issues, either as a complaint, as a witness to a specific topic to treat (social, cultural, anthropological field work or of any specific social science, which are realities sometimes very raw and extreme poverty, crisis, social chaos, homelessness, etc.) and also traveling the length and breadth of the country in various indigenous communities in a number of places here_ Monagas, Mérida, Amazonas, Táchira, Zulia, Barinas, Guárico, Anzoátegui, Lara, Coro, Bolívar, Sucre, Aragua, Carabobo, etc.
I also identify a lot with some patients, as in my personal case many people know all the things that have happened in my life, accidents such as the bus passed over my legs in 1999, the fall of the paragliding (2006) and the double column operation and radiation treatments for aggressive fibromatosis two tumors (at the lumbar level, which were i removed by operations performed during the years 1995-1996, and 25 sessions of radiotherapy in 1997), the fall of a horse when he was 7 years of age on the farm of my family iin Guarico State, among other things, but I have always promoted a desire to overcome my own limitations and fears, and give the maximum of Myself, grateful that I was able to walk again after many trials, in addition with my trips to the Gran Sabana place and Amazonian forest, and other amazing places across the country, researching on the ethnic-themed, doing field work, seeing the need of our peoples, their sufferings in their sacred areas. An advice to you, when you are travel into their ancestral areas and their land, collaborate with them to buy handicrafts and ensuring that they have money for their livelihood; in the same way, if you see some homeless indigenous people asking for contributions of food, money or clothing in the street, help them, the best gift of life if help others people while we can do it.
Some medical Informs about my health situation:
Between the year 2002/2003, i had the experience of work in "Programa de Pensamiento Visual PPV" (Visual Thinking PPV Program, MoMA's Visual Thinking Curriculum Project), suported by our "Museo de Bellas Artes" (Museum of Fine Arts) in collaboration with the MOMA (Museum of Contemporary Art of New York), the "Cisneros Foundatión" and the "Alejandro Otero Museum", which gave me the opportunity to monitor various educational activities in the area of art and create painting and music workshops, as a way of addressing the social and artistic projects in low-income schools, with the aim of bringing them closer to the museums and integrate their communities in the art studio. At the same time also giving classes to children in the areas of music and plastic that i gender awareness in the area of pedagogy and social collaboration.
Professor of painting and music workshops of various public educational units. Children of 4th and 5th grade of basic education, in the areas of the Hatillo and Baruta. Caracas, Venezuela, 2002/2003. These workshops belonged to the Visual Thinking Program (VPP), originated in the MOMA (Museum of Contemporary Art of New York), and put into practice in the country by the Museum of Fine Arts (Coordinator Olga Lopez), the National Art Gallery (Rose Marie Aguilar) and the Alejandro Otero Museum (Janette Aguilar), in collaboration with the Cisneros Foundation (Dianela Corrie).
Later than this experiences, I try to continue by mi side but focus in help some children with cancer and indigenous children living on the streets, in addition to the beginning of the year 2012 perform a diploma in the "Defensoria del Pueblo" school about the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and as a result have been Professor in the Area of Human Rights of Unes (National Experimental University of Police Force), both during the year 2012.
In that years, my foundation project even without a real name yet, it had taken shape. At the end of the same year perform the donation of my hair (also some toys and clothing) to children with cancer, they need to develop after the loss of hair lace wigs for chemotherapy treatments, and using my Facebook account for spread the information. This donation which motivated other people to donate hair and toys, clothing and medicine, which incredibly was quite well received the proposal and understand the impact of this social network, (as well as Instagram) To convene people who donated and would do its part by placing your grain of sand to collaborate with these fragil people in such a delicate situation, and from that moment, the beginning of the year 2013 would constitute the name of the foundation: Unknown Heroes. It should be noted that during the 5 previous years my person had made various donations during the year to various indigenous communities and in several cities of the national territory, but it was not until 2013 that was consolidated the foundation, in the same way took as its point of departure the year 2008, since from that year with "Un Regalo para un Amigo" (A gift for a friend) and other subsequent donations that make by my side but i had already the idea, the spirit, the organization, the collection and delivery of donations, the only thing that varied in 2013 was simply put the name, therefore, 8 years of donating and be committed to social causes, both my person, like many other collaborators and volunteers, who have had the opportunity to share this experience and to make donations and even take them with me.
My own Hair Donation (Fb post):
Facebook Post:
"To donate hair, and also clothing in good condition can be directed to the Children's Hospital of J. M. de los Ríos, located at Vollmer Avenue, in Saint Bernardine, basement, Oncology Unit, approach and can make their donations, from 9am to 3:30 pm, can also organize visits of clowns or musical or artistic events (with time) can be directed where i told you."
DDHH Human Right of Indigenous People Degree, as well as participation in other indigenous cultural events of nature, as a consultant, photographer, researcher:
Photograpy Art Exhibition: "Ni sumisión ni rendición/
Resistencia indígena."
(Neither submission nor accountability - Indigenous Resistance).
Nahu Padilla: Adviser to the assembly, curator and coordinator of indigenous-themed weekly forums, beside to Kira Peña (Productora Kiwayu, C.A.)
Location: Art Room (lobby) of the Government of the Capital District. Area: Knowledge. Government House Capital District, Bolivar Swuare, Caracas.
Date: 27 Oct 2012.
Resistencia indígena."
(Neither submission nor accountability - Indigenous Resistance).
Nahu Padilla: Adviser to the assembly, curator and coordinator of indigenous-themed weekly forums, beside to Kira Peña (Productora Kiwayu, C.A.)
Location: Art Room (lobby) of the Government of the Capital District. Area: Knowledge. Government House Capital District, Bolivar Swuare, Caracas.
Date: 27 Oct 2012.
Meeting of Wise older Indigenous
Encuentro de Sabias y Sabios Indígenas
Nahu Padilla: Advisor on indigenous issues and photographer.
Location: Teresa Carreño Theater: Room José Félix Ribas. Experimental Art Room from
Fine Arts Museum and El Calvario place,
Caracas – 2013. Date: 21 y 22 de Feb. – 2013
Other images:
http://www.olabolivariana.org.ve/noticias/encuentro-de-sabios-y-sabias-indigenas-culmino-con-ritual-en-el-calvario-fotos/#.WCwKltThBkg
Photographs taken at the event Meeting of Wise, for me:
Watch all the pictures link here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.481310448598097.108843.100001574386293&type=1&l=0c59643ed1
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