Christina Haverkamp (* 6 September 1958 in
Nordhorn
Nordhorn (Northern Low Saxon: ''Nothoorn'' (or ''Notthoarn'', ''Netthoarn'' and ''Noordhoorn'')) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the district seat of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony's southwesternmost corner near the border with the ...
, Germany) is a German-based
human rights activist
Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...
with special focus on the
Yanomami
The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Etymology
The ethnonym ''Yanomami ...
people living in
Venezuela and
Brazil. She founded the non-profit organization
Yanomami-Hilfe e.V. in 2006 to help the indigenous people there. This was after she revoked her association and membership at the Society of Threatened Peoples with the argument that the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) organization had embezzled money and enriched itself by collecting donations meant to help the Yanomami but were not paid out for the allocated Yanomami projects.
She gives lectures in schools and universities about human rights and environment.
Activism
In 1992, Christina Haverkamp crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a self-made bamboo raft in order to protest the 500-year anniversary of America's discovery, and to draw global attention to the human rights situation of the Yanomami. In 1997, she built the first medical station upon request of the Yanomami in their village Ixima, in Brazil. 2002 Haverkamp finalized her second medical station in Brazil, upon request of chief Joao Davi Yanomami in his village Papiu. 2005 she constructed the third medical station in Venezuela, in the Orinoco region of Mavaquita. 2011 she finalized her latest medical station in Venezuela, in the remote Orinoco region of Delgado Chalbaud.
Haverkamp enabled chief Joao Davi Yanomami to travel to the United Nations headquarters in order to raise awareness about the plight of his people.
See also
*
Rüdiger Nehberg
References
External links
*
yanomami-hilfe.de*
ttp://www.gfbv.de/inhaltsDok.php?id=231&stayInsideTree=1// Who is --- Christina Haverkamp?/Menschenrechte WeltweitAlbert Schweizer Schule.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Haverkamp, Christina
Living people
German human rights activists
Women human rights activists
German activists
German women activists
1958 births