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A cultural center for the Naso people

Posted on February 10, 2009 in Legacy Fund

Legacy Panama1.jpg Photograph courtesy of ACD
The Naso king (front row), Lucho (far left) and several Naso community members pose for a picture in front of their future cultural center.


In April 2008, the Genographic Legacy Fund (GLF) supported the Naso indigenous people of northwestern Panama with funding to establish a community cultural center, including a library of documentation done about and/or by the Naso people. Alianza para la Conservación y el Desarrollo (ACD) is a Panamanian non-profit organization that has worked closely with the Naso people for many years and is providing administrative and other assistance for this GLF project. Genographic team member Danae Tuley recently visited Panama and was invited to hear first-hand about the progress around establishing the Naso's community cultural center:

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