El Dajao community, in El Salvador municipality, recently hosted the first Awareness-Rising Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage to distinguish the traditional work of this peasant population, according to the UNESCO norm set out in the 2003 Convention.
In the activity, which will take place in several municipalities of the Cuban easternmost province with more than 75% of mountain cover, cultural promoters and art instructors participate, who are also in charge of organizing the inventory of traditional practices in the hard-to-reach areas for carrying out systematic work that guarantees its conservation.
During the workshop directed by the municipal coordinators, Rafael Charón Carrión and Santiago Speck, it was proposed to work from non-formal education with children of the communities and population settlements, dedicated to the cultivation of coffee plantations and several crops so that they can learn customary practices.
In this mountain municipality, belonging to the Turquino Plan, blacksmiths, handicraft-men and top palm tree cutters still preserve all these techniques of agricultural work as part of its conservation.