In this project, we propose a dialogue between knowledge with local communities from a collective health perspective, intersectional anthropology, and the processes of cultural translation. Joining the social-sanitary processes and public and control policies related to the pandemic and post-pandemic of COVID-19, we will conduct participatory and inclusive intervention research, aiming at the systematization of scientific knowledge, technical knowledge, experience, and tradition in dialogue. To this end, we work on popular education and health communication strategies in seven communities from the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, and Ceará. To this end, we will form a corpus of strategic texts composed of technical-scientific updates, records of social and health policies, and successful experiences of community-based have taken place in other global latitudes and that have been written in English, French and/or Spanish. Once translated, the contents are being culturally translated to the various languages of popular communication (graphics, stories, videos) and shared with the communities through networking with their social leaders. In turn, the project stimulates the construction of new first-hand materials (diaries, maps, photographs, mini video reports, audios) that are being systematized into records of various kinds (pamphlets, protocols, manuals, institutional posters, podcasts, among others) which are being put into circulation within and among communities and territories. We believe that community places are, par excellence, those that have the most creative, resilient, and resistant responses to the progressive pandemic crisis and its consequences. In turn, we support the engagement of scientists with community-based work, aiming to contribute to the reduction of health inequalities. There are seven communities-territories that are part of this proposal: the Movement of People Living on the Streets and Young People from the Urban Periphery of Natal organized in the Rede Emancipa - both groups from Natal -, the network of fishermen and women Mangue Mar, the indigenous community of Amarelão - from João Câmara -, the network of fishermen and women from the Vila of Ponta Negra, the Community Association Recycling for Life - from Mossoró/Rio Grande do Norte, the Gypsy Calon Community from Paraíba, and the Indigenous Federation of Ceará.
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