Bring digital technology to 550 Colombian Farmers

Thanks for your support! We have already started the implementation of our project and we have some exciting news to share with all of you.

First of all, being our first time ever as Global Giving partners we really feel the love and support of the community and the farmers in Noruega Berdum are also feeling it. This makes us proud of what we have achieved but also increases our commitment and desire towards our main goal.

We already had the first session of ignition and engagement with some of the farmers. Around 25 farmers know more about the project and about CultivoRed and we expect them to continue working in the next workshop and training session.

We had a good first session of training on which many of them already demonstrated why there's such hope in Colombia's countryside. We already have some focalized groups of potential Young Leaders that can be our replicators, the next step is to effectively train them.

We are already piloting some knowledge transfer strategies involving the farmers, and actually, some of them are on route to be the first replicators by the beginning of 2020.

We created some WhatsApp groups with technical experts who will interact and solve some frequently asked questions by the farmers. We are doing this because once we can identify the best channel for communication we can design specific alphabetization strategies and better exploit such channels which in the end would prove to be more beneficial for the community.

Recently, we started some collaboration projects with other NGOs that are interested in piloting alphabetization strategies and tools and we are aiming at including this into our very own methodology. In fact, we believe most of our projects will get stronger the more we collaborate with other organizations.

In terms of the platform, we will continue looking for funding so we can have an MVP before the first half of 2020. For now, we are focusing our efforts on the offline part of the project given that this is usually more demanding.

This is a very brief summary of what we have done since the beginning of the project, we are very excited and looking forward to 2020. Also, given that we are already in December, all the members of Mas Por TIC wish a happy Christmas and a very happy new year!

Yours,

The team @ Mas Por TIC