Economic Growth Mexico Project #5695

Support 50 trainees on Social Development Projects

by Adeco Acciones para el Desarrollo Comunitario A.C.

Project Report | Oct 30, 2015
The work (thankfully) must continue.

By Tlalana | Coordination team

Art, community and color

The Tlalana network is moving forward and young people from different communities around Mexico have been growing along with it. The mutual responsibility that this implies has put us through many challenges, and since everything changes, especially people and the conditions that they live in, we have had many adventures that are now showing how collaboration can overcome anything, even our own barriers, along with our communities’.

Enchúlame la Bici

Things have changed a lot this year since the opening of their second shop, their project keeps growing, showing the world and themselves what self-management can do.

Young people have participated in the “Preventing Drug Use” program, in which this collective gives workshops on bikes and self-employment. Currently, the Enchúlame la Bici project works with 200 young people that have the need for a job or has a drug abuse record.

El Sabio Pensil

Along with small plagues and the ever unpredictable weather, our wise garden is growing and blooming. We are now harvesting tomatoes, pumpkin, beans, chiles, corn, lavender, mustard, celery, garlic, onion, dill, mint, citronella, stevia, toronjil, cedrón and their beautiful flowers. Individual and collective action has been invested in this project, not without sweat and some difficulties. Yet, what used to be a dump is now a beautiful place full of life and green and the fruits and beauty of what nature can offer if we work with it. Doing it as a collective makes it all the better, giving it more sustainability as a project.

So as we learn about the Earth, the moon and the sun cycles, we also learn about what we can do as humans with the resources and power that we have as a collective, as a society, which we integrate into our methodology working with others’ and our own communities.

Zekuollaz

With their project “Art, community and color” they have changed the face of some streets in Chimalhuacán. This 4 month project involves the work with groups of up to 40 kids and young in weekly activities and workshops, promoting their social and individual skills to work with others and discover their capacity to transform their environment and their community, which is now known for its violence and poverty.

This collective has grown in the hearts of their community and they can now do projects like the ones shown here.

Chante de Todos

Their work, focused on promoting activities that invite people to engage with their local life, has been centered on opening a community library as a place for meeting and sharing for everyone, aside from their usual workshops that include dancing, movie-debates and collective creation of music.

They are collaborating with other organizations in San Mateo to have everything ready for the town’s celebration of Día de Muertos.

Teamwork is easier and funnier

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Jul 24, 2015
Three paths, one common goal

By Tlalana | Coordination Team

Dancers on the roof

Tlalaná, as a project focused on young people, is strengthening its methodology. We are testing new tools for measuring our impact and the collectives are starting to show us what they can do to transform their communities. With our mutual help, three different youth-led projects have an ambitious plan to transform their communities for the better. Find out more about it below!

Enchúlame la Bici

For the second time this collective is about to start working with young people that have a record or are close to becoming drug addicts. This includes a 200 hour workshop and a personal project that each of them will be following involving mechanical skills, community leadership and empowerment. We will tell you all about it as soon as this second group finishes the program.

El Sabio Pensil

Our vegetable garden has taught us some valuable lessons as a collective project. Among them, one of the most valuable is the organization capabilities that we have developed to get the results we want from it. We designed the “Responsibility cycle” that allows us to take care of its needs and, in the process, we developed a model that can be put into practice by other youth collectives. This model is now part of our facilitation sessions with the collectives. All the meanwhile, the garden has now corn, beans and pumpkin growing, along with citronella, more blackberries and more than 20 more flower plants, vegetables and others.

DFbaila

DFbaila has been looking at expanding its reach, first looking inside. The collective is starting to put into practice their new teaching – learning model. Its principles are based on Intercultural Education. We developed a brand new model through the joint efforts between our facilitation team and this collective. We worked hard on improving the level of communication and community integration during the bachata and salsa classes this collective gives and the first group of young people are starting to discover themselves and their surroundings in a new way through dancing. Soon you’ll be hearing about their results with this new model.

With your help we can do this and more!

If you are interested on what we do don’t forget to check out and like our Facebook page (in spanish). We regularly update the information available on each of the collectives of the Tlalaná Network and other relevant information.

In the Enchulame la Bici's workshop

Nice smell of lavender

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Apr 24, 2015
Seeds rooting with rhythm and joy

By Tlalana | Coordination team

DFBaila looks community bonds through dancing

Hi from the Tlalaná Team!

This year seems to be filled with surprises and good news. Along with our usual group with El Chante de Todos, Enchúlame la Bici, Zekuollaz, and other youth collectives our group has a new addition, a project full of life, rhythm and music. On the other hand, our urban agriculture youth collective project is now yielding its first harvest: our first flowers, fruits and vegetables are here! Blackberries, green beans, pumpkin flower, lettuce, tomato, epazote, garlic, lavender and more! Read on to know more about what we have been up to.

DFBaila

We are very happy that a new collective has joined us in our quest for enhancing our community’s development. DFBaila defines themselves as a collective that “promotes the culture of dancing in couples to integrate their community through space management”. We are working with them so they can develop their project that involves life-skills, the rehabilitation of public spaces and the development of communities. Soon you will be learning more about them through our updates on our work together or you can explore their Facebook page and check out this review on one of Mexico City’s blogs on cultural activities: Melí Meló, where they talk a little bit about their methodology and their projects to recover parks and community bonds throughout Mexico City.

El sabio pensil

This is the name of our patch, it means “The wise garden” and we are learning a lot from it. We are now developing this plot of land, that used to be where people threw their trash and that we initially cleaned up completely before planting, with the participation of 15 young men and women who are aware and passionate about organic food and sustainable development and that live and work around our headquarters. Through this project we seek to raise awareness on our consumer habits and our capabilities to break this trend in our daily lives. We, as young people, have a crucial role in this because we will not only keep applying this knowledge in years to come, but because by proving stereotypes wrong and overcoming other systemic and structural difficulties we can have a major impact on our communities. So far we have picked blackberries, lettuce, green beans, garlic, epazote, chive, green tomato, purple mustard, raddish, potato, coriander, lavender flower, parsley, fava beans, pumpkin flower, labiada and mint. We are looking forward to increasing our production and improving our irrigation system and water collection infrastructure.

With your help we can do this and more!

Working with DfBaila's members

So far we have picked blackberries

We transformed an old dump in fertile soil

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