GEN Twinning: New Story (La Bolina & CDH)
Channel: Dario Ferraro
Date: 2020-12-22

Despite the differences in the context where we are located, our 2 organizations share common aims and backgrounds:

- Centre Des Hommes (CDH) focuses on local development in Togo involving farmers, artists and children to offer them opportunities to overcome poverty through social entrepreneurship and education. They are in the process of building an ecovillage site where to support the local community to thrive, but they need to do water management intervention on their land as one of the steps that will facilitate the realisation of the training center “Ecovillage Centre Des Hommes” (ECDH).

- La Bolina envisions a world of connected ecological, regenerative and intercultural communities and activates this vision in a depopulated rural area of southern Spain. They are dedicated to the promotion of a local circular economy and a dignified and respectful integration of migrants and refugees, running education and training programmes and growing and selling ecological vegetables.

We came together in this project to show how our communities value and collaborate with the environment creating connections and using local resources, to talk about migrations, its risks and its opportunities, and to learn from our different points of view about it.