EL GRÁFICO, Oaxaca

“MODERN TECHNOLOGY ... TRADITIONAL LANGUAGES”

The Frente Común Contra el SIDA has announced the opening of a new service on their Internet Website www.frentecomunoaxaca.org, offering AIDS prevention information in Spanish and, now, 11 indigenous languages of the state.  Since the opening of this site in June of 2005, with its more than 125 pages, the Frente Común has made an enormous contribution to AIDS information in the world of the Internet.

This key element in the Frente's expantion of its site, is a new section entitle "LISTEN - AND LEARN."  Using the latest technology of the Internet, some twelve AUDIO-VISUAL presentations of 30 minutes offer basic AIDS information, forms of transmission and means of prevention. 

Recorded by volunteers of the Frente Común, this is the AIDS talk which has been given over three thousand times in schools and workplaces over the last fifteen years.

In simple language and with illustrations by Oaxaca artist Enrique Flores, this AUDIO-VISUAL presentation is the first of its kind in the Spanish language Internet.

In addition to a recording in Castillian Spanish, the Frente offers the choice of listening to the presentation in eleven variants of the mother toungues of Oaxaca, an impressive list, including four variants of Zapoteca, two each of Mixteca, Mazateca and Cuicateca, and the language Chatina. 

These recording are only one part of the expansion plans that the Frente Común is considering to improve their Internet site, bringing AIDS awareness to young people around the world.

For more information visit the Frente's site at:

www.frentecomunoaxaca.org

Or write to the Frente's E-mail at:

admin@frentecomunoaxaca.org

ABOVE:  Young instructors of the state education program, CONAFE, record AIDS information in their native language of the state of Oaxaca.  The project "LISTEN --AND LEARN" can be heard on the Internet webiste of the Frente Común Contra el SIDA, Oaxaca, at:

www.frentecomunoaxaca.org

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