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The Wichi Indians are one of the largest group of indigenous people who live mainly between the two rivers Bermejo and Pilcomayo, the latter forming the border between Argentina and Paraguay, since time immemorial.
Since the arrival in 1910 of British missionaries to help and support them in their struggle to continue living on their traditional lands, many Wichi have become Christians and now form part of the large Anglican Diocese of Northern Argentina where they are in the majority.
There are over 100 congregations among the Wichi and other tribes in Salta, Formosa and Chaco provinces.
As a result of many years of work in education and health, during which the Argentine government has gradually taken over the schools which the Church had started and also built several hospitals in the Chaco area to help the Wichi, the Church was able to set up ASOCIANA as the Anglican social programme in the Chaco.
