Let’s Connect In Bajos de Mena, a Chilean collaboration is developing a six-month learning and making journey for 50 women using industrial materials that would otherwise go to waste.
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What inspires us is helping our country—and, in time, Latin America and other countries—move forward by truly understanding how to achieve a better quality of life.
We want people to work through partnerships and collaboration, understanding how life on this planet works and how nature functions. From that wisdom, we can discover new ways to improve our daily lives—at home as well as in the processes we create within our organisations and businesses.
It is essential that we approach this from a human perspective—not simply by knowing where to recycle plastic or aluminium cans, but by reconnecting with ourselves, with nature, and with what helps us become happier and find inner peace.
We want to feel that our lives are guided by care and compassion—for the people living alongside us today and for future generations.
Our invitation is for everyone to join us so that, together, we can continue learning and improving the ways we live and work every day.
By observing nature, understanding how life and the climate function, and learning from them, we can create new pathways to a better future for all.
English translation of the original Spanish recording.
The proposal brings together green skills, creative production and circular enterprise. It focuses on wood and textile offcuts, training and routes to products that can have a longer useful life.
The announced programme envisages sourcing material, learning and making sessions, and support for participants to explore enterprise opportunities. Its proposal also describes potential products including packaging, gifts and circular fashion.
The programme is in development, with a planned six-month cohort of 50 women.
In Bajos de Mena, the collaboration brings wood and textile by-products into a planned journey of learning, making and enterprise.
The proposal begins with industrial by-products, including wood and textile offcuts. Technical information about the material helps inform what can be made from it.
The starting point is a relationship between businesses with surplus materials and a locally grounded training programme.
Practical training and circular-economy learning are designed to help participants turn recovered materials into new products.
The planned six-month programme is designed to offer 50 women space to build skills and explore circular enterprise.
Packaging, gifts and circular fashion appear as possible products. The proposal explores routes back to businesses through sales and a social store.
Ecocivilisation Chile, Fundación Melyna Montes and INFOCAP bring complementary network, community and training roles.
A proposed journey from recovered materials to skills, products and enterprise.
Manufactura Circular y Triple Impacto es una colaboración en Chile que propone unir formación, reutilización de materiales y nuevas oportunidades de trabajo. Las metas de participación describen lo previsto para el programa, no resultados ya alcanzados.