The welfare of animals and people in the pastoral Andean space, challenges and opportunities in pandemic times.

BIBIANA VILÁ

Minoprio Lombardia

Conferencia; HIGH SUMMIT COP26. International Conference on Mountains, Climate Change and Sustainable Development; 2021

COP 26. Climate Italy

Most of the llama breeders are members of indigenous communities and practice subsistence economies. They live in isolated places, with high mobility between different elevational rangesMost of the people knew of the distant beginning (in China) of the virus.In the villages, people could identify those who had brought it for the first time, almost always from the border area with Bolivia.All families have suffered from the lack of face-to-face classes in schools.?The pandemic was something very sad for the community, especially it separated us from our students. As a teacher, I saw that my students have been greatly affected, very closed in on themselves, for a long time. There is much talk about connectivity, the point is that connectivity in the mountains does not satisfy, it is not very good, it is deficient. Many of the students here have families with 4 or 5 children and only one cell phone. It was impossible, the memories were filled, it was all chaos for us?Several children have developed the disease and / or have elderly relatives who have become ill and some have died.?The pandemic scares people a lot. I had it, I felt a headache, a sore throat and I couldn´t breathe. I was scared and they had to take me to the medical room, they gave me oxygen?