Colombia

Meeting and training project

• Location: Medellín
• Year: 2017
• Objectives:
  • Provide the community with a meeting place that will provide information for the social issues that directly affect them (health, drugs, teens and women´s issues)

• Direct beneficiaries: 300 people (vulnerable population)
• Total budget: 15.000 €
• GAM funds: 10.000 €
• ​This project is unfinished because the authorizations for the change of land use for the construction are not ready yet. The administrative council of GAM asbl decided to wait until the end of 2020 for the continuation of the project.

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• Direct beneficiaries: 250 people
• Total budget: 10.000 €
• GAM funds: 10.000 €
• Partners: "Le groupement Centre de Formation pour les Jeunes du Pacifique" in collaboration with all the local social-economic actors

Training center for youth of the Pacific

• Location: Cali
• Years: 2014, 2015 and 2016 (project developed in three phases)
• Objectives: Construction of an educational center in three phases:
  • Phase I (2014): Renewal and adaptation of the training center and launch of the first health activities (children).
    
  • Phase II (2015) and Phase III (2016): Various training courses adapted to the demands of families in accordance with the work of psychologists, nurses and teachers. Monitoring of training sessions.
    
  • The aim of the project was to set up a support program for young people, adolescents and young couples, to prevent social problems linked to the formation of gangs, vandalism and the consumption of drugs. This center hosted courses by professionals in psychology, health and family policy in programs developed with representatives of different categories of the population, both young and old.

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Establishing Small Farms: Adapting Traditional Farming Methods to Ensure Food Safety

• Location: Acaricuara, Mitú-Vaupés
• Year: 2009
• Objectives:
  • Adaptation of traditional farming methods to ensure food safety.
    
  • The establishment of small family farms required minimal but quality tools. The intervention of GAM asbl enabled the operation of 45 family production units which were quickly imitated and even improved by the various villages of the region (the traditional “granjas”).
    
  • The organization of 30 productive plots was managed by women with the participation of their families in the frame of organization, training (accounting and product marketing program), technical assistance and promotion of organic fertilizers.
    
  • This corresponded to the general framework of the food safety policy.

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• Direct beneficiaries: 120 people (30 families) from the Tucano ethnic group residing in rural areas of the municipality of Mitú, Department of Vaupés, Colombia.
• Total budget: 14.642 €
• GAM fund: 8.298 €

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