Salir de misión a las comunidades de la vereda del río San Juan implica olvidarse de la cobertura durante unos días. “Qué relajante”, pensarán algunos...
Andrea Parolin Durante mi viaje por Colombia he conocido lugares maravillosos y he tenido la posibilidad y la suerte de cruzarme en mi camino con diferentes personas, escuchar historias, conversar y contestar a muchas, muchas preguntas. La primera siempre es la clásica, “¿estas en Colombia por vacaciones?”...
Andrea Parolin Colombia, a pesar de los importantes logros alcanzados en relación a la igualdad de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres, sigue siendo uno de los países que presenta los más altos índices de violencia de género y falta de acceso efectivo de las mujeres...
Elena García Prieto. Esta imagen fue tomada por Gisel, una niña de cuatro años que vive en el barrio Isla de la Paz, en Buenaventura. Un barrio construido desde la primera piedra, en 2001, por desplazados llegados desde otras regiones del Pacífico. Para quien no sepa...
During my last week in Nicaragua, I had the chance to visit a Disaster Risk Reduction project on the other side of the country, in the region of Atlantic. To go there, we took a 12-seats aircraft from the capital to Bluefields. Then we took...
It’s been a week since I returned back home from Nicaragua, after my five-month volunteer deployment. I have explained my experience to family and friends, and I asked them to describe what a volunteer is with one single word. Their answers were adjectives like altruist,...
I cannot imagine a better place to spend the last days of holidays in Nicaragua than Palo de Oro in the Natural Reserve San Juan Venado (León). The scenery is astonishing: a coastal wetland island, which acts as a barrier between the Pacific sea and...
Before leaving Nicaragua, I had the opportunity to visit the community of Pahara Tigni in the municipality of Tortuguero, where a disaster preparedness project is being implemented by Alianza por la Solidaridad, together with FADCANIC, OIKOS, Acción Médica Cristiana and HORIZONT3000. The project, which is...
In the mission I took part last week I had the opportunity to know the people living in these communities, not only during the time of the activities but also in their dairy life to get in touch with their social life. I could see...
According to the FAO, “ensuring women’s access to and control over agricultural assets and productive resources is important for achieving food security and sustainable livelihoods”. In the line of the principle 20 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, adopted in 1992, the position...