Corona has hit hard all over the world. We are living a reality that few of us would have ever imagined, with lock down and social distancing. In Colombia the lock down has hit hard. There is a huge informal work sector, meaning people work from day to day with whatever comes around. It might be selling products in the…
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Women’s International Day #8M
For the Women’s International Day, on the 8th of March, we participated in different events both in Popayán and Cali as we have been doing the last couple of years. #8M in Popayán Nori has been a part of several activities in Popayán this year, she even participated with a group of women in organizing the events in the city…
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2nd international gathering for women who fight
In the mountains, South Eastern part of Mexico, December 2019. In some forgotten mountain in the South East of Mexico there are some very well organized indigenous communities that started rebelling against the government almost 30 years ago. In their territory it is prohibitted to consume alcohol and drugs, which has helped a lot in erradicating violence in the families.…
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Nori in Mexico
Nori is home in Mexico for Christmas to visit her family, and has some exciting news to share: I am visiting Mexico to spend Chrsitmas with my family in Querétaro where I have been living for many years. I contacted an organization that I used to work with while I studied at the university. They work with a community called…
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Workshops with Teater Vølven
We were contacted a little while back by Josefine from the Scandinavian theater group Teater Vølven. She is currently in Colombia doing a semester in Bogotá and she had heard about our work and suggested a colaboration between the two organizations. Workshops in Cali and Popayán We arranged workshops with 2 partner schools, one in Popayán and one in Cali.…
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The books are popular
We have received several donations to buy the Spanish version of the book “The Wonder Down Under” to hand out at our partner schools in Colombia. Why? Because we realized that the schools have very little to non-existing material at the libraries about the sex-ed related topics. We have now handed out books to 9 partner schools in Cali, Popayán…
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Presentations in Denmark
Salka has been on a tour through Denmark to do presentations with Spanish classes at High Schools. She talks about our work in Colombia, and why we think it is so important, but also to give inspiration and an insider view of Colombia. In a couple of weeks she visited 7 high schools around the country, some for the second…
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Launch of new workshops
We have spent the first months of 2019 organizing our work and planning our new workshop program that we can now happily say is ready. We have been back at our partner schools both in Cali and Popayán to start our work with the students againg, and to be honest it feels great to be back. Two weeks of workshops…
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8M 2019
Again this year we participated in different events for 8M – International Women’s Day, both in Cali and Popayán. We believe it is important to keep fighting for the rights of girls and women and 8th of March is a day to mark this. 8M Cali Liv and Salka participated in part of the demonstration that took place on 8th…
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Liv’s first month as an intern
About a month ago, I started as an intern in Mi Cuerpo/Min Krop as a part of my master’s studies at University of Copenhagen. It has been an exciting, educative and productive weeks for me as an intern, and although I have only been a part of the organization for a short period of time, I have already learned many…
