Peace and Reconciliation Colombia Project #43781

Tech: key to re-empower 42 surviving communities

by Fundacion SOLE Colombia

Tech: key to re-empower 42 surviving communities

Project Report | Jun 17, 2020
Dialoguing about the future we want!

By Maryam Tertel | SOLE Colombia Community Coordinator

Conversation with The Granny Cloud

Dear SOLE Colombia friends,

We hope you are safe and healthy. We know that the last 3 months have been challenging for all of us, no matter in which corner of the world we are.

At SOLE Colombia we also have been facing a new reality, in the way we work and interact with the SOLE Colombia Community and with our different partners.

This worldwide situation brought us to rethink the importance of what we do. We have a big challenge: How to respond to this situation with the tools we already have, what can we do? What other ressources are available to respond? How can we still contribute to a long-lasting peace in Colombia from our homes? Is there a way we can keep building and strengthening our SOLE Colombia network and comunity of people all around the country and the world even if we can't meet in person?
Sitting at home, we saw how a new window of opportunities opend for us and the diverse people and communities we are connected with.

We started reconnecting to other people doing SOLE worldwide, who had similar challenges. We received the support and great company form the StartSOLE team (www.startsole.org) to have access to a great platform to do virtual SOLE sessions with different people all around the world, and this has been a big oportunity to open different spaces to talk, chat and learn together. This new way of connection and interaction has become the core of what we do at this moment.

Even if the actual crisis is hard, the technology we are using to connect to each other, is opening opportunities for people from different regions and contexts to connect, start new conversations and learn together about different kind of themes. We are convinced that we need to talk more, to open new spaces for many diverse people all around Colombia and the world, to get together and learn more about our differences and diverse world views.

We also know that this actual situation has shown us more clearly some of the problems that were already there under the surface, like socioeconomic inequality and lack of opportunities due to isolation in remote areas. We are sure that if we bring this themes to our conversations and start not only talking, but acting, we can start to find the solutions together, being aware of not leaveing out those who have to be part of this conversation.

This is why we are looking for new ways and partners to bring the voices of those who right now aren't connected to the networks we are conencted with. Our dream is to build a strong network of people and communities all over Colombia and the world, people from all different backrounds, who have had different life experiences, have different world views and even though are willing to come together and learn from each other.

If you would like to join us for a Virtual SOLE or conversation with many different people all around Colombia and the world, please send us an email to hola@solecolombia.org and we will give you more information so you can join us on this great adventure!

And also, if you would like to support us with your donation to help us bring more people in remote and isolated areas to this conversation, you would be contribuiting to a one of the big steps in the peace building process of our country.

If you would like to know more about our work with one of our rural communities, please visit this project and feel free to share it with your network: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/build-a-school-in-the-cloud-for-pisamal-colombia/

Thank you for your support in so many different ways.

We wish you all the best and hope to hear from you soon, you'll definitely hear from us again during the coming weeks.

Stay safe,

SOLE Colombia Team

Another Virtual SOLE

First Virtual SOLE

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Feb 20, 2020
The next big steps to build a long-lasting Peace!

By Maryam | SOLE Colombia Community Coordinator

Re-activating the SOLE in Pisamal

At SOLE Colombia, this 2020 has started with many ideas and a lot of questions around peace building in Colombia!

The Big Question "How to give a long-lasting peace to Colombia"? is not an easy question to answer. At SOLE Colombia we believe that many different actions from different people all around Colombia and the world, can contribute to peace in our country. We're not looking for "the one"who is responsible for peace-building, we believe that all of us, each individual, community, organization and group is capable of contributing to a long-lasting peace.

In this sense, we believe that every community doing SOLE around Colombia, every teacher, librarian, community leader and all the participants who are asking themselves diverse questions, who are solving together their own challenges and creating their own Self-Organized Learning Environments -where they can feel free to learn, discuss, give an opinion and build something new-, are also contributing to peace building.

Some of our goals for this 2020, and what we already started to do, is to build a stronger connection between different people who are part of the SOLE Colombia Community (ambassadors, participants, donors, grannies from the Granny Cloud, other volunteers and other people interested in SOLE), and not only strengthening the bond between them, but also with other amazing people around the world who are concerned with the future of learning and the transformation of our world.

And we want not only to have a network with deeper relationships, but also want to invite diverse people to join us on this discovery journey, where we can find together how to face the present and future challenges and explore together diverse ways to bring a long-lasting peace to our country.

For this, it is necessary to reach those places in remote areas, where people could build their own Self-Organized Learning Environment and use the power of the Internet to learn together and connect with the rest of the country and the world. In a country like Colombia -and in a world like ours-, we believe it is necessary to get closer to other people from different contexts and realities. That's why we think that scaling SOLE to all over the country and opening spaces and conversations to talk about what we think and what moves us, and building bridges between regions and different communities, we can contribute to the transformation of our country.

This is a Big Challenge we don't want and we can't face it alone. We are inviting different organizations and communities to join us and are also very happy and grateful that you and so many donors have joined and supported us on this challenge. That's why we're inviting you to share with us any ideas or thoughts about new ways to find more ressources to reach the most remote places and find new ways to connect with each other and bring a long-lasting peace to Colombia. On the Playground in The Cloud you can read more about our work and the coming events -like "RECARGA TU SOLE", a videoconference with our community- and also share your thoughts with us: https://parqueenlanube.padlet.org/solecolombia/home.

Also feel free to write to us anytime: hola@solecolombia.org

Thank you and stay tuned for the coming news about How to give a long-lasting peace to Colombia?

Sanjay, Maryam and all the SOLE Colombia Team.

Conversations with the SOLE Community

India, France and Colombia and the Granny Cloud

The SOLE Lab in Bogota

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