Taigüey Foundation

Greetings to The Swamp! In the past month has seen the blonde walking down the street, or perhaps running? Well, I would like to formally introduce myself my name is Jacqueline, Guerrero, or "Yaki." I live with Fefa, Galmy, Nanai and so on, across the river, in the "neighborhood Haiti". I am a Peace Corps volunteer in the United States and live two years in this community as "Cienagera" next to you.
Peace Corps is a government agency where volunteers work in developing countries to promote peace and friendship. There are over 195,000 volunteers have served in 139 host countries to work on issues that range from disease education, environmental conservation, information, youth business. The Peace Corps volunteers continue to help individuals who want to build a better life for everyone in their communities. (Read more ...)

Taigüey Foundation, who coordinates the project CARISNET 2 to support the development of the Caribbean Community Virtual Actors / Actresses ICT (CIVIC) organizes 11 to November 14, 2008 CIVIC 2.0 a regional event and multi-sectoral Technology Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development and regional integration. The main component of the event is "Consultation CIVIC" that contribute to the development of a 2-3 year strategic plan of the civic community to meet the challenges we have in the field of ICTs for development in the Caribbean (such as capacity for better public policy advocacy, better production of knowledge, enhanced project management TICpD, but regional cooperation projects, etc.) but will have two days before training seminar TICpD policy design, and a day management training in thematic channels Web 2.0 (and moderation and facilitation of thematic subgroups). This is also the opportunity to launch the new platform CIVIC 2.0 (more ...)

Wednesday 27, 9 AM: return to normal. Follow the overcast and humid, but finally in this area, no loss of life, very little damage, some bananas lying ... ... Tuesday August 26 5 PM .... Rain subsided, and I get light in the center reopened, some water inside, but little else, the satellite antenna did not move, we have sign ~! ~ ... Tuesday August 26 9:00 a.m., bloguiando Barahona as disconnected from everything in downtown Guanaba.net. Lots of rain, moderate breeze. The raging sea .... prepared to see that coming today .. 7:15 PM on Monday August 25 2008: AS POSSIBLE!! This here a young civil defense (Read more ...)

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24 and 25 May 2008 a workshop on ecotourism guides with support from the Spanish Cooperation (AECI) in the context of ecotourism project comuniatrio supported by the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI). The aim of this workshop was ( a) to sensitize the students of the importance of ecotourism guide the care of the environment and the development of tourism in general (b) demonstrate the intimate relationship that keeps the environment in our tourism and (c) create a vision Solid importance of ecotourism guide because it has the mission to inform, direct and guide the tourists from different points of view with emphasis on the care of nature. (Read more ...)

From the Swamp reports the community center infomediaries Guanaba.Net Barlin Ramirez. (Attachments also the final results of this municipality, as published by the Central Electoral Board) .. .... "The reason for this post is based on the information and procedures of the past elections in the municipality of La Cienaga developed ... .. (Read more ...)

On October 13, 2007 I came to the swamp to make a six-month internship in the NGO Foundation Taigüey. We had a great time. During these months working with my colleagues to Transagro and ecotourism projects and see the results ... I can almost Transagro Coodeci of a cooperative appointed Ecotourism project has started training people in the Swamp and Bahoruco! (Read more ...)

We reunimosen several evaluation sessions

Mildred Guevarra, a member of the board of the fledgling Cooperative Development of the Marsh, who will manage the operations Transgaro and Ecotourism projects, participated in a workshop to exchange experiences between Micro Ecotourism in Biosphere Reserve Jaragua-Bahoruco- Enriquillo .. organized by Grupo Jaragua, Inc. with support from the MacArthur Foundation on 7-8-9 March 2008 ... Mildred tells her workshop experience: "Experience in this meeting was a great privilege for me was and is unforgettable .... I tell you: reach Pedernales almost overnight ... (Read more ...)

For the Foundation Taigüey 2007 has been very busy, and advances, including the realization of the activities under the strategy of supporting community development in the community of La Cienega (Barahona province) raised in 2004-2005 . With the opening of community telecentre Guanaba.net (February 2007), the project start shaping the agro-processing cooperative company of women (Transagro - April 2007), the approval and start community ecotourism project (June 2007) and further development activities such as Geographic Information System to support community participation in municipal planning (Junio-Sep. 07) we can say that it became fully in the implementation of the axis of community work. And he established collaborative partnerships with government institutions and development organizations. (Read more ...)

So far no reported injuries to people in the area of the swamp. Tropical Storm Noel began to feel on Saturday 27 in the afternoon of that day was light and so far (Tuesday 30 11 AM) has not returned. Some houses lost zinc roof, the sea rose a bit in the beach area, especially in Bahoruco beach. In the hills the breeze tumbo many plants and grains of coffee were to be harvested. Guayayal T path is not passable. Guanaba.Net center is not no load on the batteries. Barahona has no light either on Saturday night, no phone or Internet from Sunday - only the Orange cellular functions, those who have charge. The road to the capital is cut in Paya / Bani. There are a lot more damage when Hurricane Dean in August.

Reflections d (in English) and Alexis (Peace Corps volunteer) from the roof of Guanaba.Net - edited from a text that he wrote for the CP responsible ... ..

"I stand on the roof of our Telecenter every day, smoking cigarettes I can not get the rid of, and look out at the town - A Few Thousand people sitting under tin roofs rust-red clustered in an hole Surrounded by mountain, With little connection to an outside working economy and little Desire to Have it any other way. Taking it in, I can not But Usually focus on one Thought: this community is Completely UnSustained. (Read more ...)

This Sunday, September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the swamp on the map" was held with 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 the program of Transparency and Citizen Action. (Read more ... )

For four months I worked for Taigüey Foundation and participated in the project feasibility study Transagro. Unfortunately, the August 30 ended my internship and then this was the day I had to go, I had to leave the swamp and the country. But .... (Read more ...)

On the afternoon of Saturday August 16, 2007, Hurricane Dean was less than 100 km off the coast of La Cienega. Guanaba.Net and Civil Defense teamed up to keep informed the inhabitants of the municipality on the advance of the phenomenon and preventive measures and precautions to take if the cyclone entered the southern coast of the island. Thank God the eye look beyond cycle and avoided major damage. Only a few wooden shacks on the beaches and the Cienega Bahoruco were affected. (Read more ...)