By Robinson and Maryam | Community Leader and SOLE Community Coordinator
Dear SOLE Colombia friends,
Today we want to share with you some news about the community of Pisamal and what they have done during the pandemic to stay connected and participate of the great worldwide conversation about the future we want (https://www.un.org/en/un75).
For the whole SOLE Colombia Community and specially for the community of Pisamal, the last months have been challenging, but amazing at the same time. Robinson's house, the only place in the community with connectivity, and where the neighbours used to meet in person to do SOLE, has been closed for the last months due to the restrictions. In the last weeks they have had the chance to meet in very small groups to do SOLE again, but it is still hard for them to return to the routine they had. Even with this situation, they have found ways to have their voices heard while they speak about the future they want.
This year is the 75th. Anniversary of the United Nations and we have been invited to join the great worldwide conversation about the future we want. Many people from different regions have started conversations with their own communities, using the platforms we shared for this project, Start SOLE and Loomio, that allow people to do SOLE remotely. This has given the whole SOLE Colombia community the chance to connect to and invite diverse people all over Colombia to have dialogues starting from their own dreams, realities, challenhes and hopes.
The community of Pisamal, with Robinson leading the initiative, also joined this project and started a conversations with a particular question "Why are colombian people poor"?. Adriana, one of the grannies of The Granny Cloud in Spanish (Nube de Abuelitas), joined their conversation and helped them to bring their voices to the United Nations. Because of the connectivity, Robinson and Adriana connected through a videocall on their computers and Robinson connected all the participants through WahtsApp. All participants live in different places on the Pisamal mountains and the only way to communicate is through WhatsApp. Even if this is a challenging situation, we still admire the fact that the people find ways to participate with the tools they have.Here you can find some quotes of the different conversations we have had all over Colombia during the UN75 + SOLE project: https://parqueenlanube.padlet.org/solecolombia/lavozdecolombia.
Together with the community of Pisamal, we still have in mind the construction of physical place, the SOLE Lab, where the people can meet more easily to do SOLE. Until we are allowed to meet again and start a construction, we're working together to find the ressources for the community to stay connected using Internet.
Thank you for all your support and we'll keep you informed about the next steps the neighbours of Pisamal are taking.
Please stay tuned and stay healthy.
Robinson, Pisamal neighbours and the SOLE Colombia Team
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