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    1) Indigenous families in Guyana experience high levels of poverty, with poverty rates twice or five times higher than non-indigenous populations. They face challenges securing employment and monetary resources. 2) Access to healthcare is also a challenge for indigenous communities due to factors like lack of availability, poor quality, and lack of transportation to facilities. 3) Education quality is poorer in rural indigenous communities compared to coastal areas, leaving youth without skills and perpetuating poverty.

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    1) Indigenous families in Guyana experience high levels of poverty, with poverty rates twice or five times higher than non-indigenous populations. They face challenges securing employment and monetary resources. 2) Access to healthcare is also a challenge for indigenous communities due to factors like lack of availability, poor quality, and lack of transportation to facilities. 3) Education quality is poorer in rural indigenous communities compared to coastal areas, leaving youth without skills and perpetuating poverty.

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    1) Indigenous families in Guyana experience high levels of poverty, with poverty rates twice or five times higher than non-indigenous populations. They face challenges securing employment and monetary resources. 2) Access to healthcare is also a challenge for indigenous communities due to factors like lack of availability, poor quality, and lack of transportation to facilities. 3) Education quality is poorer in rural indigenous communities compared to coastal areas, leaving youth without skills and perpetuating poverty.

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    Challenges experience by the indigenous families (rural communities)

    According to a 2017 report on the ‘Study of Indigenous Women and Children’ by UNICEF,
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    Guyana has a population of 746,955 people of which 10.3 per cent were categorized as

    indigenous people. Currently there are nine indigenous tribes nestled across the 10

    administrative regions of Guyana. The aboriginal people are known to be culturally oriented,

    however they are known to be most deprived in the country. They also experience poverty

    twice the rate or even sometimes five times more than the non-indigenous population. The

    2011 - 2015 poverty reduction strategy posited that in Guyana the highest poverty level is

    exhibited by the indigenous people.

    Challenges faced by indigenous people are:

    Monetary Resources: studies have demonstrated that in the rural areas the indigenous

    people are faced with the lack of employment opportunities. It has said that most of the

    women do not have formal jobs and the ones who do which is approximately 55% are

    employed in food, agricultural and educational areas. Sixty-seven per cent of the adult males

    are either employed in forestry, agriculture, fishing or mining and quarrying.

    It is evident that many aboriginal people exist in deep vulnerability and some depend on help

    from their neighbours and/or religious or not-for-profit organizations to have the bare

    minimum. Some Indigenous Peoples might not consider themselves underprivileged, but a

    large number of them live without the means to have three meals a day, or the money to buy

    basic products. Some would use traditional medicines not because it was part of their culture,

    but because they did not have money to buy medication in the local shops.

    Health: The right to a healthy regime is for everyone living in Guyana. Unfortunately, the

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    aboriginal people are challenged daily when it comes to having a healthy life. This is

    influenced by diverse factors such as availability to health care, poor quality of health care,

    poor sanitation, water and hygiene, lack of vaccination, transportation. E.g. At the

    Amerindian Hostile in Region 4 many pregnant women and children would leave their

    villages to seek lodging at the hostile just to be able to have access to the health care facilities

    in that region because in their villages there is little to no form of health care services. Not

    only women and children but the men also would have to uproot to lodge in the hostile to

    access proper health care.

    It is due to these elements that the indigenous people in rural areas are faced with HIV/AIDS

    and other diseases, little nutritive standing in women and children, and behavioral health

    problems.

    Education: According to the ‘study on Indigenous Women and Children’ conducted by

    UNICEF it was found that poor quality of education Is an issue experienced both primary

    and secondary schools for those children living in the hinterlands when compared with the

    children living on the coast. It is said that “education is the key the success” if this quote is

    true the Amerindian children in Guyana would be bound for failure because lack of education

    leaves indigenous adolescents without proper qualifications which would result in lack of

    the skills and knowledge needed to attain proper paying obs which would contribute to them

    ascertaining low paying obs that would therefore perpetuate the issue to poverty in

    indigenous communities.

    How Can these issues be overcome?


    Social Scientist can help alleviate these issues by:

           Integrating policies to reduce rural poverty: it is crucial to provide policy support

    across government ministries, including Ministries of agriculture, public infrastructure

    and services, social affairs, employment, health, education, finance, planning and

    environment.

     examine decision-making processes on health and protection issues; strengthen the

    provision of equitable prevention and response to different forms of child violence,

    including gender-based violence; inform the development of a robust, sustained, early

    childhood development and equitable and inclusive education programmes for

    Amerindian children.

     exploring women’s leadership skills and their capacity building needs at the community

    level; explore livelihood and, empowerment opportunities; provide evidence for national

    and sub-national planning and developmental processes to contribute to an enabling

    environment, for Indigenous women and children, and determine the knowledge,

    perceptions and roles that were played by Indigenous peoples in the preservation of the

    environment and climate change and what are their current roles.

    Reference

    UNICEF. (2017). Guyana - Study on Indigenous Women and Children . Retrieved March 26,

    2020, from Guyana - Study on Indigenous Women and Children

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