UUI (with a middle horizontal script in each U) is the word in Woumeo with which the word woman is designated. Dawper uui (or earthquake) is the woman who rests under the sleeping earth, and when she gets tired she moves to change position and then the earth trembles. (History of the traditional Oral Waunaan that explains the movements of the Earth).
As a metaphor, the women of OVICPUWOBO (Organization of Victims of the Woounaan People in Bogota) are compared to move their world, to transform, gestate, produce and make changes.
The Colombian armed conflict prevented them from continuing with a life project in Chocó, to protect life they had to leave and leave the river, the tambo, the saying di, the fish, the trees, the sound of the sea.
They now live in urban contexts and fight so that their memory and identity are not lost. Every day they speak in Woumeo to their sons and daughters as a form that their language does not die and thus be able to feel moments again as in The upper river basin of San Juan.
Indigenous women fight against poverty, exclusion and lack of opportunities that have brought them to the city of Bogota. They do not want to forget their origins and where they want to go back. They also want to study, go to university, have a job, be entrepreneurs and spread their artisanal knowledge.
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