Taigüey Foundation

We report today from the headquarters of UNESCO, which has been selected for the project implementation we sent in February called "strategic ownership of multimedia technologies for non-formal education of youth at risk and producing content for the Web 2.0 community development Swamp "which aims to integrate / marginalized young people / community as the process of digital inclusion through the development and systematization of a process of informal education of youth at risk for the development of applications and content Web 2.0 that allow the use of technologies for development. This project will be very interesting! (Read more ...)

The "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our project proposal from the 230 it received. Of the 20 selected, 15 will be financed with about 7000 euro each. Our plans to develop multimedia materials for ICT training for women who run rural cooperatives. We hope to October 1 final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but may translate by clicking the banner above to the right ...)

Hello, my name is Yesenia Saud, I am the new coordinator of projects and Ecotourism Transagro-Swamp Swamp. My academic background is in Clinical Psychology degree. I have training in Planning and Management of Ecotourism in Tropical and Sub Areas. Tropical Social Marketing Management, Rural Development and Tourism, Strategic Management of Community Development, Development and Implementation Workshop, among others.

My experience in recent years has focused on the area of "Community Development" conducted mobilization processes in rural communities. (Read more ...)

Barlin, informediador Guanaba.net star, participated last weekend in a workshop for young community leaders. He tells his experience: "Here I have them report for the workshop Cachote. This workshop was sponsored by a project called "Build Your Dreams" Peace Corps and international plan. Lasted two days where you work hard for the transformation of a young individual a facilitator The purpose of this is to train young "community leaders" to have the ability to create a business plan and leave with the ability to serve as multipliers or other youth. One of the primary purposes of this project is to have facilitators who are in the ability to train young people for creating business plan. (Read more ...)

This Sunday October 14, 2007, Charles Louis Roques civic organization Citizen came to give the community an interesting workshop on the law is "access to public information" and how we exercise our rights Some 25 people participated, including leaders / as community, youth and employees / as municipal council. There were several interesting exchanges about why and how to access what information public. (Read more ...)

The trans-agro project, considering it has its plan, capacity building for the women, and building a partnership with the Institute of Technical Training (INFOTEP), organized a Technical Assistant Accounting Course, open to the community. The course started October 1st trip with the teacher Mr. Jose Polanco and will last 260 hours, and enrolled 22 youth from different communities, La Cienaga, Fudeco, Bahoruco and Arroyo. (Read more ...)

The council of the municipality La Cienega and Taigüey Foundation signed an agreement within the framework of the Swamp in putting the map on which they agree to collaborate in the use and future expansion of the GIS tool (Read more ...)

On Sunday, September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the swamp on the Map" was held under the facilitation of Mr. Domingo Matias, an expert in municipal issues, the workshop "Participatory Municipal Planning and the use of Maps" with the objective awareness of / participants in the Municipal Planning concepts and processes for their operation and applications of GIS planning tool. The workshop was held at the City Library of La Cienega and was attended by 33 people representing various community organizations, aldermen, treasurer and employees of the City Council, representatives of FEDOMU, and Program of Transparency and Citizen Action. (Read more ... )

Geologist facilitation department Raul Ponce mapping NSO workshop was held on data processing in order that / participants acquire knowledge sovereign Basic Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Process Generation and Updating of Maps with ArcView software and the basics. The workshop was held in Guanaba.Net facilities. The workshop gathered 13 people from the community and the municipality of La Ciénaga (Read more ...)

On Saturday 25 August 2007, beginning at the Telecentre Community and Cultural Guanaba.Net La Cienaga, Barahona, the computer course for members of the Mothers Club Guardian Angels, an organization that like many involved in the project that implements TRANSAGRO Taigüey Foundation in this municipality of Ciénaga. This course is designed to train these people so that they can even provide a better service to the community through a better way to organize their activities in their community organization and in the future micro community enterprise cooperative. (Read more ...)

In the municipality of the swamp for about 9 months to install a computer center where the hours of the morning were given two courses from basic level of computing, involving people from youth organizations and community . The first course for organizations began on April 26, 2007 and ended on July 26 of that year whose participants were: (Read more ...)

Representatives of eight members of grassroots organizations Project Advisory Board "for Digital Inclusion" receive a course on "IT for grassroots organizations" in Guanaba.net. As shown, we have taken the class Worthy - farmer leader - Canary - Adventist Pastor, Amanda - Community Leader and at the bottom to Professor Silvio, poet and director of high school .... (Read more ...)