{"id":20,"date":"2021-09-18T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augeac.org\/en\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-10-18T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:58:44","slug":"quienes-somos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/augeac.org\/en\/quienes-somos\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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  • \n \n \n \n Objectives<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Mission and vision<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Core values<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Methodological principles<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Where are we? <\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Our story<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Directory<\/span> <\/li>\n
  • \n \n \n \n Vinculaci\u00f3n<\/span> <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n
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    We are a community development organization that works in the outcast zone of the city in Le\u00f3n, Guanajuato. We believe that people can break the conditions that keep them in the outcast condition through education and community development. Want to know more?<\/strong><\/p>

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    The word self-management<\/strong> expresses a position in front of the others; a vision of the person that is based on confidence in their abilities and respect for their freedom. No one can develop another; no one can decide for another the moment to act and the direction of his action. Only with that other person, and from the other\u00b4s perspective can the conditions of their marginalization be overcome. Self-management is also a basic methodological budget. AUGE is not an institution that brings assistance programs to the communities or that gives away groceries or blankets. We are an organization that invites people in communities to organize, learn and work to transform their reality.<\/p>

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    Education<\/strong>
    We understand education not as training, or knowledge accumulation, but as the process of integral growth, of development of the potentialities of the person in his indissoluble bond with the community.<\/p>

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    At AUGE we seek to develop projects that meet the most urgent needs of the community, defined based on self-diagnosis. We are currently work on the Education, Health, Culture and Incidence is the environment. We also coordinate the La Olla Solidarity Network, a second level organization that seeks to provide more comprehensive care to the inhabitants of Las Joyas. <\/p> <\/div>\n\t\t \n

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    Mission<\/strong><\/p>

    AUGE\u2019s mission is to accompany those who live under marginal life situations for them to be the subject of their own development.<\/p>

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    Vision<\/strong><\/p>

    To be an organization capable of consolidating first and second level organizations at impoverished or struggling neighborhoods for their residents to be able to accomplish the full guarantee of their human rights.<\/p> <\/div>\n\t\t \n

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    The values orientating AUGE\u2019s work are:<\/p>

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    • Justice and equity. <\/b>We believe in the possibility of building together a society where everyone may find his\/her fundamental rights guaranteed; a society in which the access to basic goods like health, education and food would not depend on the family\u2019s socio-economic situation.<\/li>
    • Freedom.<\/b>One of our fundamental stand points is that people are born free and no one can make decisions for them, especially when it comes to decisions regarding the person they themselves would like to be.<\/li>
    • The person as the center point. <\/b>The compass orientating our main methodological choices must always be to consider that the person is the center of all our work. People, and children in particular, must be above every economic or political interest. Persons should not be turned into means, they are ends in themselves and shouldn\u2019t be used as means to achieve other goals. Immersed in an economic system which has gone from a market economy to a market society; where everything is turned into merchandise, we state that persons are not merchandise and they must not be used as a simple input for economy purposes or supporters for political purposes.<\/li>
    • Solidarity. <\/b>Research has provided evidence that our evolutionary success as a species is due more to our ability to help each other, than that of the fratricide competition among humans. We believe in the innate ability of the human being to feel empathy towards his\/her fellow humans, and thereafter, to act in order to help those in need. We also believe that solidary attitudes, those generous and filled with compassion, are not only good for the other who is being helped; moreover, those attitudes are an efficient way to build our own happiness.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ul> <\/div>\n\t\t \n
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      From the previous values, the following methodological principles emerge; that is, forms of work that harmonize with them:<\/p>

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      Self-Management<\/strong>
      Respecting the person and trusting his\/her freedom oblige, as a matter of principle, to the certainty that no one is set free by someone else: it is only the individual who may free herself\/himself, and the external agent\u2019s role here is only to provide them with tools and means to do so themselves. As a matter of principle, AUGE is against charity programs which give away consuming goods when those charitable contributions are not directly linked to educational programs and processes which would refrain dependency; those educational processes should detonate the person\u2019s self-development, freedom and growth.<\/p>

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      Integrality<\/strong>
      Integrality is considered in two ways; on one hand, the recognition of the impossibility to transform people in only one way, such as the physical without the spiritual; the spiritual without caring for the psychological; the psychological regardless of the intellectual, etc. A human being is an indivisible unity, who should be considered integrally.<\/p>

      On the other hand, one can\u2019t either think of persons as islands not connected to every one else. Persons are part of a human ecosystem and material conditions do affect them. Therefore, we should seek people\u2019s transformation as individuals while keep vigilant of the physical and social setting in which it develops (known as milieu).<\/p>

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      Social Fabric<\/strong>
      The transformation of this human ecosystem basically materializes itself in the form of re-building the social bonds among residents.<\/p> <\/div>\n\t\t \n

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      We are located in a zone known as The Poverty Polygon of Las Joyas, which is the sum of more than 40 irregular settlements that have been growing disorderly way to the west side of the City of Le\u00f3n Guanajuato. It is a territory shaped as a bowl that measures approximately 1,808 hectares with mixed characteristics, on one side, there are formal but really low income housing. On the other side there are also irregular settlements, the result of multiple land invasions or irregular sales. It also has an ambiguous nature, as it presents in some areas, properly urban characteristics and in other, still rural or semi-rural features. Due to its topography, it conserves numerous runoffs that end, for the most partim in two dams that are still part of the Ejido de La Joya.<\/p>


      The conditions for the development of boys and girls in this zone are really adverse. The low educational level of their parents and the adverse conditions in which teachers work increase the educational gap. Young people, who see few prospects for the future, are easy prey for organized crime. Community ties are weak, due to the recent formation of most of the settlements and due to working hours and long commuts that leave little room for organization and enjoyment of free time. These conditions are what force us to respond and work in this area. Do you want to know a broader diagnosis of Las Joyas?<\/strong><\/span><\/span>

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      AUGE, autogesti\u00f3n y educaci\u00f3n comunitaria, a civil association that inherits the more than 30 year experience of communitary education programs of our founders. In 2006 we became Utop\u00edas Navegables, devoted fully to producing materials for community education projects.<\/p>

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      In 2012, we were invited to run some diagnostics to Las Joyas because of the extreme growth of violence among the community. From there, we felt the need to help in several problems related with the use of free time of boys and girls; to come up with supporting ways to help in their educational performance and avoid them from quitting school, to help in the early development of younger boys and girls, to better their health and nutrition situation, to encourage breastfeeding in newborns…We got to work, first under the name of Utop\u00edas but we soon learned that we needed to restructure and formalize our work, and in 2014 we constituted AUGE, with a new board and a territorial purpose focused on Las Joyas. <\/p>


      In the very extensive territory of Las Joyas, there already were some other governmental organizations, churches, etc that worked with the people of the zone. We saw the need to group all these efforts through a wider association of people and organization, and that is how Red de Solidaridad La Olla was born. <\/p> <\/div>\n\t\t \n

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      Board of Directors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

      David Carlos Herrer\u00edas Guerra (President<\/strong>)<\/p>

      Sara Mar\u00eda Herrer\u00edas Azcu\u00e9 (Technical Secretariat<\/strong>)<\/p>

      Juan Manuel M\u00e1rquez Ponce (Treasurer<\/strong>)<\/p>

      Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Morales Sim\u00f3n<\/p>

      Ricardo Arturo Pinto Morales<\/p>

      Renato Solares Ponce de Le\u00f3n<\/p>

      Arturo Bernab\u00e9 Torres Fox<\/p>

      Jos\u00e9 Manuel Salvador Zerme\u00f1o Luque<\/p>

      Ega\u00ed Jasso Arroyo<\/p>

      Clara Azcu\u00e9 P\u00e9rez Gil.<\/p>

      Bruno Adri\u00e1n Cervantes Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>

      Advisory Council<\/strong><\/p>

      Carlos C\u00e1rdenas Castro<\/p>

      Oscar Mauricio G\u00f3mez Romo<\/p>

      Erika Llamas Andrade<\/p>

      Carmen Obreg\u00f3n Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>

      Fernando S\u00e1nchez Collazo<\/p>

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      AUGE TASK FORCE<\/strong><\/p>

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      General Management\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
      Sara Mar\u00eda Herrer\u00edas Azcu\u00e9.<\/p>

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      Education Area:<\/strong><\/span>
      Rodrigo Murillo Salinas,\u00a0Area Director.<\/strong><\/p>

      Clara Azcu\u00e9, Tribus Auge Coordinator.<\/strong>
      Hilda Aracely V\u00e1zquez, Francisca Alf\u00e9rez, Pre-school and primary school counsellors.<\/strong>
      Georgina C\u00e1rdenas Nava, Pilar Gonz\u00e1lez, Second Opportunity High School AUGE Tutors.<\/strong><\/p>

      Rodrigo Aguilar, Hard Science Adviser<\/strong><\/p>

      Jorge Su\u00e1rez, P<\/strong><\/span>sychologist<\/span><\/strong><\/p>

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      Integral Health Area:<\/strong><\/span>
      Melanie Aguilera Area Director<\/strong><\/p>

      Cinthia Balderas,
      Joseline Olmedo, Health promoters<\/strong><\/p>

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      Art Training Area<\/strong><\/span>
      Sergio Farf\u00e1n, Sonar Las Joyas Academic Director<\/strong><\/p>

      Sonar Las Joyas Teachers<\/strong><\/p>

      Laura Rangel, Chorus<\/strong>
      Efra\u00edn Salvador Vargas, Violins<\/strong><\/p>

      Vianey Gaona, Viola<\/strong>
      Fernando Barro\u0301n, Wooden boards<\/strong>
      Josue\u0301 Molina, Double bass and solf\u00e8ge<\/strong>
      Nahum Herna\u0301ndez, Percussions<\/strong>
      Noe\u0301 Crespo, Metal winds<\/strong>
      Mariana Botello, Flute<\/strong><\/p>

      Noelia Mendoza, Cello<\/strong><\/p>

      Emmanuel Moreno, Oboe and Bassoon<\/strong><\/p>

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      Impact in our surroundings<\/strong><\/span>
      Alonso Merino,\u00a0Area Director<\/strong><\/p>

      Sarah\u00ed Navarro Promoter of the Territories<\/strong> Programme<\/strong> Jhovanna Fonseca y David\u00a0 Herrer\u00edas Promoter of the Social Management programme<\/strong><\/p>

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      Organisational Development Area<\/strong><\/span>
      Jorge Luis Lo\u0301pez Sosa,\u00a0Area Director<\/strong>
      Laura Obrego\u0301n, Roc\u00edo Gonz\u00e1lez Vega Sustainable Institutional Development.<\/strong>
      Jorge Herreri\u0301as Guerra,\u00a0Communication.<\/strong>
      Marco Bustamante,\u00a0Accounting Assistant, General Services<\/strong><\/p>

      Lupita Moreno, Cleaning staff<\/strong><\/p>

      Ra\u00fal Guti\u00e9rrez, Augebus Driver.<\/strong><\/p>

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