Food security in Cundinamarca

We are happy to tell you that in 2022 we have supported 11 communities in 5 towns of Cundinamarca (La Calera, Guasca, Sopó, Gachancipá and Soacha), 426 people in total, mainly women and children.

All the communities started the project with healing circles, spaces for collective creation and social fabric strengthening, where we identified problems of the territory and the solutions that can be developed with our model “Nutrientrepreneurship”. Our expected results are: improve eating habits and increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables. Likewise, strengthen skills such as self-esteem, being purposeful, and team work.

In the encounters the communities express they feel they belong to something greater than themselves and have created a support group, which shows the social enhancement. The trust relationships between them are necessary in order to take decisions together for community development.

11 communities have participated in the experiential gastronomy and agroecology encounters. They have learned various nutritious and cheap preparations for family meals and methods of food transformation to generate income such as vinegars, fermented and pickled foods and yogurts. 75% average attendance during the encounters held with each community. Also, they learned how the germinate seeds, how to take care of seedlings, how to make compost and prepare the soil for sowing.

Through food encounters we have provided financial education, marketing, and budget and costs tools for the development of business ideas or for their small businesses.

To continue this encounters in 2023 we count on you and your generous heart. Thanks for believing in Soydoy!

Our project is located in 5 towns of Cundinamarca: Sopo, Zipaquira, Guasca, Soacha, and La Calera. In Sopo we are working with the Town Hall, strengthening their project of urban orchards with our “Nutrientrepreneurship” program, supporting 30 families. We have the baseline and commitments and hope to reach 2 public schools. In Zipaquira we support a grassroot organization that works with children with disabilities, we have the baseline and commitments and will start with activities soon. In Guasca we work with a public school with the students of 9th to 11th grade, we have been strengthening their orchard and planted last month 41 fruit trees as our first edible forest from our goal to have created 7 more at the end of the year. In Soacha we work with a public school where we support 56 children and their parents, we have been developing encounters to raise awareness about Food security and Sustainability, this month we will start working in the orchards.   

In La Calera we work with 30 mothers from a public school, we have developed 13 Food encounters, they learned to do artisan apple vinegar, economic salads, vegetarian Rices, fruit salads, chicken with sauté vegetables, among other recipes. With clear intentions we have strengthened their leadership and communications skills, as well as strengthen the social fabric. We offered 3 self-care space: Zumba class and listening circles for women empowerment.  We had our first harvest 2 months ago in the school orchard and created a new garden and hope to sow at the end of this month.