The Venezuelan government remains silent about the so-called Escazú agreement, the very first latin american treaty for the protection of the environment and with a focus on safeguarding the environmentalist activist. Today Venezuela is one of 8 countries that hasn’t signed the treaty. To promote the country to sign it and fully commit to their clauses, civil society organizations, activists and indigenous people are promoting the slogan #EscazúYa.
La vida de nos Itinerante aims to train storytellers through a process of intensive several-day workshops held in the regions themselves and equip them with journalistic and narrative skills to discover and write meaningful stories that tell the country’s current state of affairs and how this crisis is endured in their respective regions.