Entrepreneurship Bonus
To support the entrepreneurial processes of the most vulnerable population, in this case single mothers, we have made available to them the ENTREPRENEURSHIP BONUS, raising funds so that they can achieve their dreams, strengthened, totally in charge of their own development and free from extreme poverty.
We seek to empower the leaders of these initiatives, strengthen their decisions and encourage them to start, this along with technical training that gives them administrative foundations for management and community relations.
It will be developed in three phases:
technical and administrative training
product technical training
creation of networks and alliances that facilitate its commercialization
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CEPI
"Center for teaching, thought and research"
Soacha and Bogota become a great stage of opportunities where we must focus our intentions on academic production and contribute to the development of those communities settled out of necessity, through children and young people, with open minds always willing to speak positively about their living space.
WHY ARE WE A SOCIAL LABORATORY?
Because beyond advancing projects in a specific territory, we create spaces for collective learning through experimentation and co-creation of instruments and tools with multiple actors in society.
contextualization of the territories we impact
The armed conflict has forced Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in Colombia to flee their ancestral territories, migrating to major cities and municipalities. They have left behind their lands, families, and properties, as well as their culture, knowledge, traditions, and harmonious relationship with the environment that once provided them with what they needed to live. They have altered their ways of relating to a harsh land that tests their ingenuity against their needs, ignores their traditions, and offers them nothing but revictimization and the normalization of the conflict—a legitimization of the violence that persists amidst crime and scarcity.
In Colombia, the problem of invasions and illegal settlements of land on state-owned properties is present, which in most cases occurs in areas of high, unmitigable risk; this urban informality presents a set of irregularities in terms of rights: urban irregularity, construction irregularity and irregularity in relation to the right of ownership of the land (Alegría, 2005), and of course irregularity in the protection of fundamental rights.
On the outskirts of the sprawling city of Bogotá lie the Tocaimita and Alpes neighborhoods, located along the old road to the Llanos region. In the municipality of Soacha, the Brisas de la Esperanza and Bella Vista neighborhoods are situated in Commune 4. These communities are comprised of Afro-Colombian, mestizo, peasant, and Indigenous groups, with populations dispersed across the lower, middle, and upper sections. The lower sections are dominated by Afro-Colombians and some mestizos; the middle sections by mestizos and peasants (including reintegrated displaced persons); and the upper sections by mestizos, peasants, and Indigenous people. These groups share conditions of evident economic and environmental vulnerability. Currently, more than 600 families live in each of these areas, lacking basic public services, sewage systems, and adequate housing. The primary construction materials range from shacks made of tin and tarpaulin to wooden houses, with a few constructed of brick, cinder block, and fiber cement tiles.