Support 50 trainees on Social Development Projects

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.