Baarle rocks!
Last Sunday, the Small World Foundation was the special guest at Dassepop in Baarle-Nassau. With the magic sounds of various local bands on the background, fairy-faced girls made the coolest necklaces and bracelets ever...
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Small World Foundation represented @ Dassepop
On Sunday September 13th, the annual music festival Dassepop will be held for the fourth time in the Dasseburcht neighbourhood in Baarle-Nassau. The event will kick off at 13.30h and the line-up includes local bands...
Excellent vibes at the Baarle library
Last night, a really enthusiastic crowd had gathered at the Baarle public library to hear mostly about daily life in the Tikuna indigenous community of San Martin de Amacayacu, but also a little bit about the various activities of...
Public Library Presentation
On Wednesday the 26th of August, Heike van Gils will present about San Martin de Amacayacu at the Public Library of Baarle-Nassau-Hertog (powerpoint and video images). Of course, there will be the oportunity to buy handmade jewellery, profits of...
Lions Club and Dely´s Party Service host Arcadia event in Steenbergen
The month of July has not even finished properly, or the Small World Foundation has new plans already. On Sunday the 2nd of August, we have been invited to be present from 10am to...
Images & facts from an excellent Mid Summer Night Fair Baarle!
Just like last year, the Small World Foundation is glad to have attented the Mid Summer Night Fair of Baarle. Partially due to the publicity around the BN/DeStem Development Prize 2009, many people looked...
Newsletter 26
With this newsletter back to the core of the activities of San Martin de Amacayacu to obtain the official recognition of their ancestral lands. A new government, a new map, more mapping fieldwork done,...
San Martin´s fish pond project eligible for INCODER support
Almost a year and a half after having developed the small scale fish pond project with 12 interested families in San Martin de Amacayacu, the whole thing is beginning to work out. In May,...
Heike van Gils in Internationale Samenwerking
After having recieved the Colombia based Dutch reporter Wies Ubags in San Martin de Amacayacu almost a year ago, her article in the Internationale Samenwerking has been published! Read for yourself: http://www.isonline.nl/?node_id=64919 (in Dutch)!!
Finally the hand-drawn map is DIGITAL!
Thanks to modern technology and the dedicated efforts of Javier Diaz, currently continuing his MSc studies in Quebec, Canada, the enormous hand-drawn map of the ancestral territory of San Martin de Amacayacu is digital!...