by Tairona Heritage Trust | Apr 16, 2020 | Newsletter
We hope you are all keeping well and staying out of harm’s way in these difficult times. With much of our lives put on hold we thought we would just share with you the details of an important event for the Trust and the Kogi which took place between Sunday 23 February...
by Tairona Heritage Trust | Jan 22, 2020 | Newsletter
Happy New Year to all our donors and supporters! The start of a new decade seems the ideal time to update you on our current activities. In October Kogi Mama Shibulata and translator Sylvestre flew to Sweden for the first presentation of projects to the new Unesco...
by Tairona Heritage Trust | Sep 16, 2019 | Newsletter
Dear friends and donors, Thank you for your continued support of the Tairona Heritage Trust. We’ve had a very active summer and here is an update on our activities. Firstly, following a brief breakfast meeting with the OGT Cabildo Santos Sauna when he was in London in...
by Tairona Heritage Trust | Apr 16, 2019 | Newsletter
There are no glaciers left in the Sierra. This morning the Chairman of the Tairona Heritage Trust, Jean-Paul Mertinez, the Kogi-speaking anthropologist Falk Parra-Witte and I met for a long breakfast in London with the Cabildo of the Organisación Gonawindua Tayrona,...
by Tairona Heritage Trust | Mar 1, 2019 | Newsletter
It was decided that a new remit was needed for the Trust. As a small charity we should no longer be engaged in land purchase; other, deeper pockets have been very active. We decided to work alongside others with the same objective. Jean-Paul Mertinez, our Chairman and...
