St. Vincent and the Grenadines: The Garifuna indigenous language and culture will be recovered

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The international Garifuna arts medicine agriculture and education organization revealed on Sunday that an indigenous language recovery project is on a mission to save the Garifuna language and culture from extinction in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. teleSUR

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00:00 And we go back to the Caribbean because the International Girafauna Arts, Medicine, Agriculture

00:05 and Education Organization revealed on Sunday that Indigenous Language Recovery Project

00:10 is on a mission to save the Girafauna language and culture from extinction in St. Vincent

00:16 and the Grenadines.

00:17 The organization plans to pass on Girafauna traditions, customs and language to the next

00:23 generation by inviting 100 children and teenagers from St. Vincent and the Grenadines to participate

00:29 in a performing arts workshop that will result in a public performance this August.

00:35 Participants will have the opportunity to learn traditional Girafauna music, dance and

00:41 rituals, which will result in an inspiring performance for friends, family and the general

00:46 public.

00:46 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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