Magda Nieto

Designing and living Experiences

COLOMBIA – BUCHANAN’S TIEMPO PARA COMPARTIR – BUCHANAN’S SHARE YOURSELF April 10, 2012

We have completed a month of Buchanan’s Tiempo Para Compartir in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.

Speaking from the inside of how this program has been, we are extremely proud of what we have achieved and how Colombian people have responded to donate 4 hours of their time helping the community, meeting new people, and building good things. I personally have to say that has been a busy month, but full of enjoyment. Working with the charity partners has giving us a tremendous energy of good things and we want to keep working. And you know what? The people who have been volunteering want to come back, and not because of the concert or artist (which by the way we still don’t know who it is), but because how good is to feel that you are helping other people and doing something good for the community.

We are almost there, but for now wanted to share with you some videos of what we have been doing.

This is our first project, building a community centre in Ciudad Bolívar with the charity Un Techo Para mi País:

 

With Arcángeles, we are building a technology centre, with recycled bottles (pet bottles). This project has taken us a lot of work, but is amazing how is coming together, and we are looking forward to see it finish.

 

So are you willing to donate 4 hours of your time, to become part of this movement?

 

Buchanan’s Tiempo Para Compartir!!!! March 12, 2012

As I mentioned in my previous post, I´m working as NGO´s partnership manager in Colombia for RockCorps. And last week we launched the program we are working on in Latin America, with our whisky partner Buchanan’s, which is launching its news program Share Your Self!

This year we will be trying to change the minds of 8.000 people, who will be doing 4 hours of community service, donating in total 26,000 hours, in México D.F., Caracas and Bogotá. And we will be celebrating this with a concert, in a very RockCorps´style in May.

Here in Colombia, we will be working with 9 NGO´s with 40 projects. We started this past weekend, and let me tell you the reaction was amazing!

Here is a video to see what all is about:

 

One person at the time, and we can change the World! January 31, 2012

One person at the time, and we can change the World!

With this philosophy RockCorps started in 2005 in United States, and now they have changed the mind of more than 81,000 people who become volunteers that have donated more than 324,000 hours of their time to social causes, in USA, England, France and Israel.

Now RockCorps is starting projects in Latin America in Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia, and I am happy and proud to be part of the planning team in Colombia who will deliver this amazing program, more news to come and here a video that shows what exactly RockCorps have done, and I will be doing this semester.

 

THE RAQUIRA’S ARTCRAFTS February 6, 2009

Filed under: Artistic,Bogotá,Creative,Design,Events — magdanieto @ 2:38 pm

Raquira

Raquira is a small town located in Boyacá, Colombia, just 2 and half hours away from Bogotá by car in the north east of the country. Is a perfect town to get to know all the different types of arts and crafts products that a country like Colombia can produce and created.

I went recently there and I was amazed how this town have change in benefit to the tourists and tourism in Colombia. The town is a mix of colours, bright colours that are all over the place in the houses and the products. The people are very welcoming and always wanting to help, probably just to get some money, but believe me it worth it and the prices are not high at all.

You can find all type of crafts, from bags, ceramic cups, jewellery, like the Tagua’s seed in earrings, bracelets, key chains, etc. Knitting art works, pottery, hammocks (a comfortable bed that you can hanging up in two columns or walls). See the pictures below to see all what it offers.

For me was great, I need to buy presents for my friends in England and I want it to be something that my country produced, was pretty, useful and could tell that Colombia is not just Coffee and that white product that we are famous for, but is not good for anything. But especially because it reminds me the beautiful places that Colombia has that helps to promote the country and the area. And if you are looking what kind of activity you can do while you are in Bogota, or in Colombia, Raquira will entertain you enough if you lie art, if you like shopping, if you like to travel, if you like to talk with local people, and if you like things in general.

More information about Colombia, in the Lonely Planet.

More Raquira’s photos below:

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Los conductores en Bogotá September 1, 2008

Filed under: Bogotá,conductores,Drivers,Traffic,TRancones — magdanieto @ 7:15 pm

En el primer articulo escrito por El complejo de Prometeo, habla sobre como los conductores en Bogotá, Colombia tienden a conducir.

Gracias a unos de los comentarios de mi querida hermanita, quede como la peor conductora de todas.

  • Pero el problema no es tampoco de educación. La academia de conducción donde mi hermana vio el curso, si le zamparon las veinte horas teóricas y mi hermana es imprudente y hace hasta lo imposible por pasar al lento de la fila.

Pero, les cuento que la verdad no esa. Solo que si tiendo a manejar rapido, porque me desespera la gente que hace estorbo y hace trancon, asi que trato no ser uno de ellos. Pero siempre trato de respetar la fila, bueno lo intento.

 

 
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