Foundation Taiguey

The program "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our proposed project among the 230 it received. Of the 20 selected, 15 will be funded with over 7000 euro each. Ours is proposing to develop multimedia materials for training in ICT for women who manage rural cooperatives. We expect October to a final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but I can translate it by clicking on the banner above right ...)

Barlin, informediador star Guanaba.net, participated last weekend in a workshop for young community leaders. Shares her story: "Here you have the report for the workshop jail. This workshop was sponsored by a project called "Build your dreams" of the peace corps and international plan. It had a duration of two days where he was working hard to transform a young individual of a facilitator The purpose of this is to train young people "community leaders" for having the ability to create a business plan and leave them with the ability to to serve as multipliers or other young people. One of the primary purposes of this project is to have facilitators who are in the ability to train young people to create business plan. (Read more ...)

This Sunday October 14, 2007, Luis Carlos Roques of the civic organization Citizen Participation came to give the community an interesting workshop that is the law of "access to public information" and how we can exercise our rights Some 25 people participated, including Leaders / as community, youth and employees / as the municipal council. There were several interesting exchanges on how to access it and what information they publish. (Read more ...)

The proposed trans-Agri, considering that it plans in its plan, capacity building of women's group, and tapping into a collaborative agreement with the Institute of Technical Training (i), has organized a Technical Assistant Accounting Course, open to the community. The course has started the trip on October 1st with Professor Lic. Jose Polanco and will last 260 hours, and 22 were enrolled Youth from different communities, La Cienaga, Fudeco, Bahoruco and Arroyo. (Read more ...)

The municipality of La Cienaga Municipality and the Foundation Taiguey signed an agreement within the framework of the project Putting The Swamp in the Map in which they undertake to cooperate in the use and further expansion of the tool of Geographic Information (Read more ...)

This Sunday, September 22, 2007, as the climax of the "putting the Ciénega in the Map" was held with the facilitation of Mr. Sunday Matias, an expert on municipal issues, the workshop "Participatory Municipal Planning and the use of the Maps" with the aim of sensitizing the participants on the concepts of Municipal Planning and processes to be put into operation and uses of GIS tool in planning. The workshop was held at the Library of La Cienaga town hall and was attended by 33 people representing various organizations, aldermen, treasurer and employees of the City Council, representatives of FEDOMU, and the program of Transparency and Citizen Action. (Read more ... )

With the facilitation Geologist Raul Ponce's mapping department of the National Bureau of Statistics will make the data-processing workshop with the objective of the participants to acquire knowledge sovereign Basic Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Process Generation and update maps with Arc View software and management basics. The workshop was held at the premises of Guanaba.Net. The workshop attended by 13 people from the community and the municipality of La Cienaga (Read more ...)

On Saturday, August 25, 2007, beginning at the Cultural and Community Telecentre Guanaba.Net La Cienaga, Barahona, the course of informatics for members of the Mothers Club of Los Angeles Guardians, an organization that since many are part of the project that implements TRANSAGRO Foundation Taiguey in this town of Cienaga. This course is designed to train these people so they can get to provide better service to the community through a better method of organizing their activities in his community organization and in the future micro-enterprise Community cooperative. (Read more ...)

In the municipality of the marsh for about 9 months that I install a center in which at the time of the morning have been taught two courses in basic computing, in which people and youth organizations in the community . The first course for organizations began the day on April 26, 2007 and end on July 26 of the same year whose participants were: (Read more ...)

Representatives of eight grass-roots members of the Advisory Council of Project "For Digital Inclusion" receive a course on "Information for grassroots organizations" in Guanaba.net. In the photo, taken the class have to Worthy - leading coffee producers - Canario - Adventist Pastor, Amanda - community leader and at the bottom to Professor Silvio, poet and director of the academy .... (Read more ...)