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Garinagu (plural for Garifuna) In The Tech Era

05/25/00
By: Jorge Garifuna
You can expect to see more technological, social, economical and cultural advances within the Garifuna community in this new Millennium and beyond.  Our youth are asking for it, and most of their voice is being heard.  Reality of this can be seen from the event that the organizations LIBAŅA BABA and MUGAMA, jointly put together on 5/20/00.  The event was focus on the inspiration of our youth.  Speeches of inspirations were presented by certain individuals such as the respectable, Mr. Andoni Castillo, Mr. Carlos Gamboa, myself, Jorge Garifuna, and some Garifuna sisters.

The topics that I noticed were common in all of our speeches, were:
  1. The extensive importance of high self-esteem, since it is very important that you feel good about yourself and know your identity as a Garifuna (in our case), for you to accomplish great things.
  2. The key points about education, which makes you competitive in this world, not only on the national scale, but also on the global level.  As pointed by the brother Carlos Gamboa, "Your competition won't be your next door neighbor, or the girl next block that dresses differently than you, or the boy around the corner that has Jeep, but instead your competition will be overseas, in Japan, China, Europe, whereby they will be working from their home, for a company of the United States, at a lower pay rate."
  3. The results of taking breaks, while uncertain of what to do or want to become.  Many of us are not sure about what career to take or what we would like to become in the future, and I find myself in that same situation, even as I'm writing now. I personally (your opinion might be different), don't see anything wrong with that, however, the wrong thing that I see is not doing anything while you are thinking about what you want to you, since of us decide to take breaks as a solution, and before we know it we are on the wrong side of the road.

In my opinion, the event was very successful! Fabulous music followed by on of the masters of Punta, J-King and his kids. In gratitude to my participation the following letter was sent me:

May 22, 2000


Dear Mr. Cacho

It's a blessing to know that you are around when you are needed to share your sources and talent with our children.

On behalf of LIBAŅA BABA and our children I thank you for participating and financially supporting the INSPIRE TO ASPIRE Educational/Career/Vocational Conference 2000.  The conference was successful just because you were there when we needed you.

With all my appreciation and respect, I remain, 

very truly yours

 

Dionisia Amaya
Director.

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01/12/07 Garifuna youngster mysteriously gets into Super Mario Game/New Music video and first GariTV commercial
12/25/06 Merry Christmas, new video on GariTV with pleasant surprise ending
11/08/06 New Yurumein Music Video by Rhode on GariTV.com
10/22/06 Introducing GariTV.com, Garifuna Online Television
04/20/06 Over 800 photos of Garifuna Street Fest 2006
03/16/06 Radio on demand for GarifunaLink.com
03/16/06 News Automation for GarifunaLink.com
03/14/06 Garifuna Forum Photos & GEM New Website
03/13/06 Garifuna`s Weekend in review, March 12, 2006
02/02/06 Tu Ritmo Records launches new website
02/01/06 Jorge Garifuna reveals the secret of his favorite Punta Music!
01/30/06 Garinet has launched OpenFanClub.com
01/20/06 The Garifuna Websites Directory has been launched
01/20/06 How to eliminate your debt faster - Part 1
01/14/06 Are there currently any Garifuna artists, breaking barriers?
01/13/06 How much money should you save to live comfortably?
01/11/06 Find out what Jorge Garifuna is up to at Jgari.com
12/24/05 Happy Holidays, Celebrate with the Garifuna Calendar 2006
12/16/05 How do you feel about people that damage the Garifuna Community?
11/18/05 Garifuna New Generation (GNG) Album, The Struggle, gets five drums at PuntaMusic.com
11/16/05 Garinet launches GarifunaCommunity.com & GariChat.com
11/10/05 The next generation of Garifuna movement will be lead by Garinet Global
09/14/05 Garifuna, Ecolastico Arzu, burned in crash and jumped off NY Bridge
07/29/05 Garinet.com turns 6 years old - brief history since 1999
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06/29/05 New development for the Garifuna Women
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06/27/05 You select your ``artist of the month``, not Mr. Bias and Associates






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