WHAT MOVES US
We are a non-profit foundation that works based on active research in communities with the purpose of generating connections and ideas through pedagogical dialogues about the relationship of each individual with their environment.
WHAT IS OUR CHALLENGE?
We have identified as a territorial actor in the Las Independencias neighborhood of Comuna 13 in Medellín that there is a rupture between the different actors that respond to social challenges such as academia, the public and private sectors, religious institutions and the different communities that make up the community. the city. Each responds from their perspective without engaging in a dialogue that includes society as a whole. Our challenge is to answer the question: How to generate meeting points that contribute ideas and actions that accelerate the changes that social challenges demand?
WHAT DO WE PROPOSE?
A nomadic school thought from the perspective of Paulo Freire where the school is an investigation that mutates through dialogues between teachers and students. We take the concept of symbolic interactionism from the sociologist and psychologist Herbert Blumer, where the understanding of society through communication is proposed. We generate knowledge while learning from each other.
LOOK TO THE FUTURE
We see our school as an engine of knowledge for today's society of the future. A community aligned with the world is a prosperous community, we want to be heard and listen to what each community and each individual has to contribute.
OUR STORY
This adventure called Comuna Project was born in 2016 with the goal of "giving smiles" to needy families in Medellín. We started in the Popular 1 neighborhood (community 1), where we learned about the beautiful challenge of working in communities far from ours (community 14, town). This road put us in beautiful places like Villatina (comuna 8) and Moravia (comuna 4).
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In 2017 we arrived for the first time in the Las Independencias neighborhood of commune 13 with one of our lines of business, which is community tourism. Trying to better understand those around us, trying to understand the challenges of their present and convinced that community-based decisions are the main axis of social innovation, we began to implement methodologies of Design Thinking, Theory of Change and Community Development Based on Active. These methodologies allowed us to execute different training programs in tailored skills and abilities that guarantee the proper use of resources in the medium and long term, in addition to empowering communities to be participants and managers of their processes.
