Taiguey Foundation

A late 2003, Vicky and two young graduates of a course of community leaders, sat with a group of community leaders / as, talking about how to take p'alante Swamp community. That day was concluded with the need both for ideas that would generate income instead, looking after the environment, develop entrepreneurship, management and organization, and the need to integrate women in the community in paid work to improve health and education. Today, after almost six years later, having made the project TRANSGAGRO and obtained the support of various organizations (PPS.pnud, FIA, Ibbi etc.) and implemented two years, the Cooperative of Women of Cienaga, COOpDECI, was present on 6 and 7 June in the FestiCafe 2009, scenario for the market the first hint of bitter orange marmalade and "In My Siembra", produced with the fruits of the shadow of the coffee of our hills. (Read more ...)

26 and May 27 of the COODECI women began the training process for the preparation of orange marmalade and sour De Mi Planting, Guided by the team of Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology and Industry. After a long process development and adjustment of the formulas of our products, IIBI starts to transfer the technical knowledge of how to make jams Soursop, Mango, Banana and passion fruit. And is that although we all know making jams, with the IIBI we're changing the spoonful of sugar to refractometer to measure the degrees Brix of the fruit and our finished product, the jar in the refrigerator vacuum-packing for lifetime or long shelf life. (Read more ...)

Today we received the visit of IIBI technical team, led by Dr. Lucia Berigüete, responsible for Food Innovation Institute for Biotechnology and Industry (IIBI), to discuss the process spent in preparing jams and start planning Technology Transfer.

The meeting was held at the premises of the COODECI, with the participation of members / os of the board of the Cooperative and the candidates for the COODECI operators, with their hands prepare jams "Sowing Me," a jam that, according to Ms. Beriguete Express, will be "craft, but developed a technical rigor to ensure product quality" (Read more ...)

Greetings to The Swamp! In the past month has seen the blonde walking the streets, or maybe running? Well, I would formally introduce myself, my name is Jacqueline Guerrero, or "Yaki." I live with Fefa, Galmy, Nanai and so forth, across the river in the barrio Haiti. " I am a Peace Corps volunteer in the United States two years and live 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 the 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 ...)

On Wednesday September 3, 2008 the respective boards met and distributed COODECI the charges two days after the successful Constituent Assembly . Further on are the people elected to the Constituent Assembly and their respective positions within the cooperative. Now get to work to realize the productive projects!
Charges Directive COODECI: Administrative Council: (Read more ...)

The "Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society" GenARDIS pre-selected our proposal for the project among the 230 it received. From the 20 selected, 15 will be financed with about 7,000 euro each. Ours plans to develop multimedia materials for ICT training for women who run rural cooperatives. We look forward to October 1st final decision. This is the text of the announcement of GenARDIS (in English but can be translated by clicking on the banner at the top right ...)

The Cooperative Group for Development of La Cienaga was formally established in the Agricultural Cooperative of Multiple Services and Development of La Cienaga (COODECI) in the Constituent Assembly held the first of September in the local source, the municipality of La Cienega. Coodeci be based organization to manage the activities of the two income-generating projects (processing of fruits and community-based ecotourism) but can perform many other activities (Such as savings and loans). This is a result of hard work of the Foundation team Taiguey carried out with financial support from the Social Fund of the Embassy of France, the Environment Fund of the United Nations (PPS) and the newly confirmed support of the Foundation Intermaricana ( FIA). A big applause to the group manager for its work and by throwing Cienaga mate '!

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Hello, my name is Yesenia Saud, I am the new coordinator of projects and Ecotourism Transagro-Marsh Swamp. My academic background is in Clinical Psychology degree. Story with 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, Preparation and Implementation Workshop, among others.

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

Taiguey Foundation coordinated with the Agricultural Training School, Centre for Research and Improvement of Animal Production, CIMPA, Santiago and organized two community groups to take courses in Horticulture and Processing of milk ... (Read more ...)

Subject to final approval of the United States Congress, the American Foundation (FIA) Foundation approved a grant to the project Taiguey TRANSAGRO , in particular to provide training and technical assistance for the women of the community of La Cienaga, Barahona , which has been organized to establish the Cooperative for the Development of La Cienaga (COODECI). This June 17 Jenny Petrow were visiting us in charge of the FIA for the region, his assistant and Sandra Theresa Logan Lafontaine, fact checkers. (Read more ...)

Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology and Industry (IIBI) and Taiguey Foundation signed a collaboration agreement in which the Ibbi provide technical assistance for the development of Jams, Preserves and Fresh Pasta from fruit produced in the impact zone of Swamp Transagro project, which seeks to create opportunities for income generation and assessment of environmentally sustainable agricultural crops by creating women's cooperative agro-processing craft.

On October 13, 2007 I came to the Swamp for a six-month internship in the NGO Taiguey. I enjoyed myself. During these months working with my colleagues to Transagro and ecotourism projects and see the results ... I can almost Transagro Coodeci of naming a cooperative and the Ecotourism Project has started with training people in the Swamp and Bahoruco! (Read more ...)

The June and December 17, 2007 we had a workshop facilitated by Soil Conservation Mr. Elpidio Moreta. The first day of the workshop (the theoretical conserve soil) was explained to participants what are the treatments that harm the soil and how to use other ways to treat it possible to follow planting without the application of chemicals and also to protect harvest. (Read more ...)

Forming a cooperative is not an easy and costs much time and effort. We are working on forming a cooperative to improve and facilitate collaboration between different organizations for Transagro and ecotourism projects. (Read more ...)

On November 22, 2007 we had a workshop Microenterprise Management with a Gender Perspective provided by the ladies Victoria Cross and MUDE Ana Julia Hernandez (Dominican Women in Development). (Read more ...)