We are very happy to announce that we will start a new project in collaboration with 4 Danish high schools running for the next year. With funding from Cisu’s Oplysningspulje, we will be creating material around topics related to Colombia and our work with youngsters in Cali and Popayán to be implemented with the Spanish students at the Danish highs…
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Workshops in collaboration
We have started a collaboration with AlasCinco, who we did a single workshop with back in May 2018. We will be doing a program of 6 virtual workshops over 6 months with the group Generation AlasCinco. First workshop Saturday 17th of October, Nori and Salka did the first workshop with the group of youngster. During the two hours, “what is…
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New project starting 1st of November
We have some great news to share with you. We have been working on a new project and looking for funding the last couple of months. We can now reveal that we have received funding from Cisu to implement our teacher training program at our local partner schools in Colombia. Teacher training From the 1st of November we will start…
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Diego’s first month
1st of September Diego joined our team for his 1 year internship as part of his Psychology studies. After a month with the foundation, this is what he would like to share: I find education to be the most important tool to construct and reach equality and equity between people. I feel that I have found my place to work…
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Groceries hand-outs in Corona times
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…
