Silkworm Breeding Workshop

Puerto Azara's Neighbours Interested in Silkworm Breeding Meeting in Alicia Suárez's House

Don Humberto


The girls reading informative brochures


María and Miguel


Workshop's Closure

Blog Action Day

Today, on the Blog Action Day, more than 10.000 bloggers from around the world unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. The climate change is one of the major challenges we are up to, and it's because of that that we need to make a global effort, from the bigger organizations to each one of the bloggers, to try to stop or revert its effects.

We want to save 200 hectares of native forest in Puerto Azara in order to turn them into a natural reservoir, but the municipal authorities don't agree and are creating difficulties, as they started to give these pieces of land to particulars who are destroying them.

Puerto Azara's inhabitants, along with Pinguelas Association and Marcial de Lorenzana Foundation support, are hard standing and fighting not to lose what it's theirs and they love: their land.

VIII National Meeting on Sericulture

VII NATIONAL MEETING ON SERICULTURE

Programme

Friday, November 2, 2007

- Opening

- Red Argentina de la Seda: Synthesis of the work so far

- Biological aspects on the production of natural silk
(FCEQyN - UNaM General Ecology Department)

- Caracterization of silk yarns - INTI's role / Textile on Textile Industry
(Ing. Carlos Enciso - INTI)

- Different organizative experiences on sericulture
(Ing. Francisco Pescio)

- Round Table: Craft-Production of Natural Silk
Locality of Carmen, Jujuy: their experience (Miriam and Antonio Arce)
Realicó, La Pampa: Promoting the production of silk (Susana Villegas)
Paraguay: Craft-handling of the fibers

- "Sustainable Production of Silk in Los Sarmientos, Tucumán Province" Proyect
(Ing. Julio César Barrionuevo)

- Sericulture in Paraguay
(Lic. Laura Garay Farías, Sr. Ubaldo Villalba Torres, Seda y Fibras Company)


Saturday, November 3, 2007

- Capacitation in Italy Report
(Red Argentina de la Seda)

- Argentinean participation in Red Andina
(Ing. Patricia Marino - INTI)

- Technological innovations
(Ing. Enrique Turano)

- Red Argentina de la Seda Meeting

Puerto Azara School made the front page of Primera Edición newspaper

Marcial de Lorenzana Institute from Puerto Azara made the front page of last Friday's edition of Posadas' "Primera Edición" paper.

Facing the Mayor's denial to supply the solicited lands to build the school in it's own piece of land, create a natural reservoir and develop sustainable productive projects for the community, the citizens mobilized in support to Marcial de Lorenzana Foundation.

Pinguelas Association, as part of the team which gave impulse to this project, embraces all of the aspects of the actions taken by Puerto Azara community and Marcial de Lorenzana Foundation.

Silkworm Breeding

Within the framework of our Silkworm Breeding Proyect in Puerto Azara, Pinguelas has turned in to the Australian Embassy in Argentina an application for financing, regarding the DAP Programme they are carrying.

The proyect was aproved by the Embasy's Evaluation Committee, and it will allow the construction of a Communal Breeding Room.

We are all very happy!!!

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…

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.