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ERAs Test New Construction Technologies

A new Alternative Rural School (ERA) begins activities in the Mayorquín River basin, El Cacao village, in the municipality of Buenaventura. This region of the Colombian Pacific Coast, strongly affected by the armed conflict, provides most of the fish consumed in the country.

The new Alternative Rural School in Anorí, Antioquia, will support the productive beekeeping project developed by 28 members of the cooperative of ex-combatants COOMULDESNA and 2 farmers from the nearby community.

ERAs Produce Their Own Fish Feed

The ERA will offer training and tools for the preparation of fish feed with local raw materials, will support the construction of a biofactory and will provide training to produce organic fertilizers, and will accompany the recovery of cocoa and citrus crops that are already in the zone.

The University of Notre Dame, a new ally of PASO Colombia

Jon Bellish, the Chief Operating Officer of One Earth Future, and a delegation from his PASO Colombia and Shared Resources programs, led by their country directors, participated in the 2019 Concordia Americas Summit in Bogotá.

The migration of Venezuelans to Colombia implies a great challenge for the economic inclusion of 1.2 million people, and is at the same time an opportunity to boost the rural economy on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

The migration of Venezuelans to Colombia implies a great challenge for the economic inclusion of 1.2 million people, and is at the same time an opportunity to boost the rural economy on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

The ERAs are productive and educational collaboration nodes, led by the PASO Colombia program of OEF. These nodes provide peasant communities and ex-combatants with training, technical assistance, access to land, capital, markets, and promote Collaborative Commercial Alliances (CCAs) to help partici...

After several months of exploration, agreement and planning, PASO Colombia begins to operate a new Alternative Rural School (ERA) in Guapi, Cauca.

As part of its national expansion plan, PASO Colombia has opened the position of Deputy Director. The main responsibility of this position will be to manage and direct the operations of the Alternative Rural Schools (ERA) project developed by PASO.

In the last quarter of 2018, PASO Colombia developed three new Rural Alternative Schools (ERA) in the border region with Venezuela, closing the year with 9 of these schools fully established and one of them in the process of consolidation.

30 participants from the Alternative Rural Schools (ERA) of Mutatá, Dabeiba and Ituango in Antioquia traveled to Valle del Cauca to carry out an agroecological tour organized by PASO Colombia and Alianza Territorios Vivos, which supports the operation of the ERA in Antioquia.

In an exemplary gesture of reconciliation peasants from 6 rural zones of the municipality of Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, unanimously voted to develop economic projects in collaboration with ex-combatants.

The Cauca Coffee Committee of the National Federation of Coffee Growers reached a partnership agreement with PASO Colombia and representatives of the ex-combatants from North Cauca, to support coffee production in Rural Alternative Schools.