Wednesday, September 5, 2007

MARÍA ALVEZ

María Alvez
She’s the woman who inspired us to name the organization as “Pinguelas”…
She’s Puerto Azara’s nurse, the permanent contact we have with the community…
She’s an amazing woman, who is always thinking about how to help others, what do the kids, mothers, families and schools need.
The kids that now go to Marcial de Lorenzana School were born in her hands, as well as almost every other kid. And if not, at least she helped during the birth.

María is like the cube in the image: for wherever you look at her, she is still herself… always MARÍA, “aunt María” as the kids call her.

Be strong, María!!!
Who know you - a lot of people and in fact the ones that really matter- know who you really are…


Monday, September 3, 2007

PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENTS FOR PUERTO AZARA COMMUNITY

When we started working in Puerto Azara we had two main ideas:
Firstly, setting up the secondary school for the kids of the community, which we could achieve in the required times; and secondly, to create and support some productive developments for their moms and dads.
These were conceived as alternatives for their unique source of income: the harvest of yerba mate.

We have been working for almost a year and after a lot of meetings, talks, market search and technical and professional consulting we put together twelve projects.

This week we start breeding silkworms and yateí bees.