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…

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…

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…

Around on different high schools In December and January Salka went to 4 different high schools in Denmark to talk about Colombia and Mi Cuerpo/Min Krop. The idea with the presentations was to inspire the Spanish students, so they could see what you can actually use Spanish to. Talk about Colombia, the culture, the social situation and of course our…

Two days of Mujeres Rizomáticas Thursday and Friday we participated in a local festival organized by women, who all work with different topics that have to do with women. The festival had an interesting program with many different workshops. It was a great way to connect with local women and get to know some of the topics that really concern…

3 days, 14 workshops and a ton of new knowledge and inspiration It has been a great weekend in Querétaro at the Sexuality and Gender Conference organized by AMSSAC. Thanks to the 27 funders who supported our crowdfunding campaign, both Nori and Salka had the opportunity to participate in the conference. Friday – inclusive language After doing the inscription, we participated…

Presenting “The Wonder Down Under” at Gabriela Mistral We have been doing a campaign to hand out the book “The Wonder Down Under” (El libro de la vagina) at the schools where we do our workshops. We have received the first couple of books to hand out. Monday 10th of September we went to Gabriela Mistral in Popayán to introduce…

Nori had an important experience on the countryside in two small rural villages 2 weeks ago. It was a great opportunity for her, the students and for the foundation to work in a rural area. She went to a remote area in the middle of the mountains, which means they are statistically more exposed to teen pregnancies and sexual education…

For some time we have talked about having a creative weekend to get some things done. We have all been very busy with the workshops and a million other things have been going on, but finally we had some time to have our creative weekend. Stamping t-shirts First of all we wanted to stamp t-shirts with our logo. This was…

Some time back I was contacted by Dorthea, a Danish woman who is starting a project here in Colombia called Hogar de Esperanza. She told me that she is currently working together with Foundation Alas Cinco in the tough neighbourhood Cazucá in Soacha (South of Bogotá). She was wondering if I also did workshops in that area of the country, because they were…