Our goal is to generate knowledge through social dialogues.
NOMAD SCHOOL
The Nomadic School is thought from a feeling that is lived in society and is that we recognize a rupture in the way knowledge is being produced with isolated individuals and institutions, oblivious to the perspective of the other and their environment. Knowledge is perfected through dialogues between equals and unequals. Beyond bringing answers to the places where we move, we want to bring open questions where teacher and student are one when it comes to give a concept to the different challenges we live as humans.
Ongoing projects
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100% free English classes led by Professor David Correa.
This project is our most precious son since in 2019 we began our intervention in the JAC room of Independencia 1, work carried out in alliance with part of the community action board team. With a group of volunteer teachers, we began to explore different pedagogies and didactics to captivate the nearly 50 students who came to our classes every night. This was the proof that education is the means to connect with the reality of our people, and that beyond a workshop or a course, what we generate are safe spaces with which people can spend their free time in something that make them grow.
Classes are given every Monday and Thursday at the JAC headquarters in Independencia 1 free for the entire community.
Healthy Homes withArgos Cement
Housing improvement project (floors, kitchens and bathrooms) in partnership with Cementos Argos. Last year, the goal of 130 beneficiary families in the Independencia 1 and 2 neighborhoods was achieved, where each family was in charge of self-constructing the improvements in their homes with a 40-hour training follow-up carried out by SENA, and technical assistance. and logistics from the Berta Martínez Foundation and the Cementos Argos team.
For this 2023 we have a projection of benefiting another 150 families, raising the scope of the project to the upper part of Independencia 2 and Independencia 3 where the economic spillover from tourism fails to raise the quality of life of the inhabitants.
In addition to making structural changes in the homes, we take the CAPSI project to each of the homes, analyzing basic needs and possible psychosocial problems. Based on the beautiful results of 2022, we remain convinced that, working together with the private sector, the acceleration of essential transformations within our community is more efficient and pragmatic when it comes to execution.
COMMON Gastronomic Laboratory
Since 2020 we had been dreaming of having a space where gastronomy was the center since in the survey carried out at that time to the community by C13 Social Lab we found that the majority of the inhabitants of the neighborhood express great passion and interest in this field. Over the years we shaped the idea by reading about the gastronomic culture of the neighborhood and always asking ourselves what were the biggest challenges in nutritional terms.
In 2013, COMÚN Laboratorio Gastronómico was finally born, a project that began five months ago with the help of many people, companies and organizations that have been adding ideas, materials and work.
The gastronomic laboratory has the following lines of work:
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¨A plate, a story¨: exploration of dishes and cultures within the neighborhood.
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Sale of soups at a fair price for the community.
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Free food for selected people within the CAPSI program.
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Free workshops for the community.
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Daily realization of experiences around ¨one dish, one story¨ for locals and visitors with prior reservation.
educational outings
Pedagogical outings for universities, colleges and business groups that want to take an active part in solving the social challenges that we experience in the communes of Medellín.
Our long experience in community tourism opened up the question of how to best take advantage of the approaches of tourists to communities like ours, and all the complexity that this entails. In order to give a prompt and practical response to this need to understand the impact of this activity in which our community has been involved, we want to add all kinds of ideas and new questions that help us understand how to generate joint actions that end up protecting communities and their culture.
The experience to which we invite is what we call the Nomad School, taking study and teaching beyond the classroom or workplace. We do dives around Comuna 13, with a focus on our neighborhood, Las Independencias. We explore the socio-cultural capital that arises from daily life and how it is affected by different actors such as tourism.
Araguaney-Guayacan
Social entrepreneurship born from our school led by teacher Auristella Tritto. An artisan teacher from Sister Venezuela, she began as a volunteer giving free classes in small bracelets with a group of children who were begging.
Over the years, these classes became a safe space for dozens of migrant women motivated by the idea of starting their new art. This is where the Araguaney-Guayacán social enterprise was born, a meeting between Colombian and Venezuelan culture that can be seen in the bags and garments that close to 20 weavers sew by hand.
Classes are given every Wednesday and Saturday at the headquarters of the JAC de independencia 1 free for the entire community.
Serendipity Theater & Vamos Pa'la Concha together withEva Moreno Foundation
Social entrepreneurship born from our school led by teacher Auristella Tritto. An artisan teacher from Sister Venezuela, she began as a volunteer giving free classes in small bracelets with a group of children who were begging.
Over the years, these classes became a safe space for dozens of migrant women motivated by the idea of starting their new art. This is where the Araguaney-Guayacán social enterprise was born, a meeting between Colombian and Venezuelan culture that can be seen in the bags and garments that about 20 weavers sew by hand.
The classes are given every Wednesday and Saturday at the JAC headquarters in Independence 1 free for the entire community.
urban garden
With the construction of the new section of Viaducto Nueva Ladera in Independencia 2, we saw the possibility of using a garden that was being built to turn it into a small laboratory where we explored how to teach environmental and health issues from these spaces._cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_
We have held various meetings together with the University of Medellín in which university students and children from the community have had the opportunity to exchange their spaces and their experiences.
For this 2023, it is proposed to increase training for the community on composting issues and the use of medicinal plants at home. We are also exploring sun-drying techniques for medicinal and aromatic plants that are low cost and easy to replicate on terraces.
Tour ¨walk to the commune¨
One of the biggest challenges we have in the commune is the high dropout rate between grades six and nine. This age is usually the entrance to the world of work for many girls and boys with a high possibility of no return. To face this challenge we have joined the SAC initiative of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) who have been doing a very judicious job with the Venezuelan population in Colombia. Once the challenge has been identified, which is to help those who are at risk of desertion or who have made a decision, whether Colombian or Venezuelan, they are provided with support that is defined as follows:
To offer alternatives that help to overcome some of these
barriers, the AudioClase System is presented as a school reinforcement service that through audiovisual lessons based on the flexible Walking in Secondary model and a chatbot system, seeks to facilitate a learning experience in which children and adolescents from 6th grade to 9th grade level their knowledge and improve their school performance.
These reinforcements are dictated by Professor Auristella Tritto at the headquarters of the JAC in Independencia 1, free for the community with prior registration.
The project has passed its pilot stage, closing with the donation by IRC and its allies of 20 tablets, 20 headphones and cables to start the classes. It is planned to start this first semester with attention open to girls and boys from sixth grade onwards.
C13 Social Lab
Space located at the headquarters of the JAC in Independencia 1 designed as a center for the generation of ideas in favor of the quality of life of the people of the community and other surrounding areas.
We started working with the tool from St Paul's University in Chicago, known as ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development) where we conducted five focus groups and surveyed 381 people. Based on the analysis of these data, we began our educational offer that is still current, and it continues to be the basis of all the research work that we have been carrying out.
The goal is to understand in order to act better as a foundation together with our friends and allies. At this time we have been focusing our analysis objectives on the tourism factor, investigating its impact on the community. The central idea is to manage to control the already existing dynamics through the generation of reports that give an exact proof of the voice of the community affected by the activity, and that these serve to mitigate the problems that are experienced here on a daily basis. to other communities that live from tourism or that want to open their doors in the future.
CAPSI (Psychosocial Care Center)
Project led by the psychologist Leidy In times where people's ways and ways of living have had to be modified, due to a global contingency for which as a society we were not prepared, finding deeper solutions to the most immediate needs became priority for all components of society.
Promoting Mental Health from community-based organizations facilitates understanding with communities, thus creating the conditions to effectively identify and measure the capacities, abilities and potential of each of the territories where it is carried out. promotes, thus ensuring the future construction of metrics and indicators that serve all stakeholders in the public, private and academic sectors; maximizing the use of all kinds of resources and capabilities available by program participants.
By being able to understand our action area and understand different realities that coexist there, an accompaniment program was designed for people and family nuclei participating in each of the educational programs offered by the Escuela Nómada de Comuna Project in the territory; At the same time, the information from the health tables of the Community Action Boards of neighborhood order and their short, medium and long-term requirements for the construction of social capital were taken into account.
SAC (Audio Class System) next to theInternational Rescue Committee-IRC
One of the biggest challenges we have in the commune is the high dropout rate between grades six and nine. This age is usually the entrance to the world of work for many girls and boys with a high possibility of no return. To face this challenge we have joined the SAC initiative of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) who have been doing a very judicious job with the Venezuelan population in Colombia. Once the challenge has been identified, which is to help those who are at risk of desertion or who have made a decision, whether Colombian or Venezuelan, they are provided with support that is defined as follows:
Offer alternatives that help to overcome some of these
barriers, the AudioClase System is presented as a school reinforcement service that through audiovisual lessons based on the flexible Walking in Secondary model and a chatbot system, seeks to facilitate a learning experience in which children and adolescents from 6th grade to 9th grade level their knowledge and improve their school performance.
These reinforcements are dictated by Professor Auristella Tritto at the headquarters of the JAC in Independencia 1, free for the community with prior registration.
Warriors Project
Safe space led by Professor Amelia Piedrahita where mostly elderly women share around making crafts, stories and hopes.
We started making crafts for Christmas, but the same members together with the teacher asked to continue meeting every week in the JAC room in Independencia 1. This year the project grew to the Independencia 2 neighborhood, where another group of women has begun to appropriate their JAC with the same purpose: to give value to your time.
These workshops are held on Tuesdays at Independencia 1 and Thursdays at Independencia 2, free for the community with prior registration.
Equipment
Those who believe, love and yearn for this community.
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