Christina Haverkamp
Christina Haverkamp ( born September 6, 1958 in Nordhorn ) is a German human rights activist and educator.
Life
The sports and maths teacher sets since 1989 for the endangered people of the Yanomami Indians in the rain forests of Brazil and Venezuela, which she first visited in 1990, together with Rüdiger Nehberg. She organized the construction of schools and hospitals in the rainforest. Every year she commutes between Europe and the Amazon and lectures, including at Harvard University in Boston, USA. She lives in Blumenthal, Office Molfsee, in Schleswig -Holstein.
Work
1992 crossed Christina Haverkamp and Rüdiger Nehberg of Dakar in Senegal from the Atlantic to Fortaleza in Brazil on a homemade bamboo raft to draw attention to the oppression and the miserable living conditions of the indigenous population. Thought the company was also a protest ride on the occasion of the discovery of America 500 years ago.
With Nehberg together they founded the club in 2006 Yanomami -Hilfe eV. , With whom she supports the Yanomami in the building of hospitals and their organization. Because of their steadfast and persistent occurrence to authorities gave her the Yanomami nicknamed " Kohiba " which means as much as "hard bean".
In 2002, she accompanied the Papius chief Joao -Davi Maraxi the " World Congress of Indigenous Peoples " to the UN in New York, where he gave a speech.
The Venezuelan Government has given permission for their project, the construction of a hospital in Delgado Chabaud which was completed in 2011.