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Yesterday I called my good friend Milton and I got the news that he had left his parents home and moved away. It made me sad because it may be harder to talk to him now that he is far away from my sidewalk, but at the same time I felt a great joy because Full Article

The afternoon and evening had a faint light gray while the rain still soaked the streets. The fog stretched a mystique over the landscape of a city beautifully split in two by the banks and bridges of the Danube river. In a spacious Conference/Music Hall located in the center of the famous Brukernhaus building of the Full Article

Time is but a wink, a hand move, a last breath? Time is what we make of it and the meanings we give it: past, present, future. Time is the short moment of the meeting of two hands or of two hugs. Time is what is lived: every smile, anger, and fuss; tears, sadness, and laughter after the Full Article

Published 21 August 2009 by yeskenia “Pretty much like avocado harvest season”, our grandparents would say, and very astonished would they be if they saw their granddaughters and great-granddaughters, in such an early age, bearing offspring. In fact, the number of single mothers who are heads of their families at La Loma increases, even more Full Article

Last Friday at 11:30 p.m., I was walking home from San Cristóbal. I was really surprised, not by my being there at such a dangerous time, but because something sad and worrying happened. A woman of about 70 years was going to Bellavista after “ironing somebody’s clothes”. She asked me to walk her to a Full Article

I have already told you that I work at Unidad Hospitalaria de San Javier; and there, besides death, another reality is witnessed, that of life welling up unchecked. The hospital is a real bellies fashion show. Most pregnant girls attending health checks are 14 or 18 years old. Most often Full Article

Internet’s day is a very appropriate moment to launch this Magazine, we’ve entitled “The hidden beauty of Ituango.” It is actually a collective blog effort where we, the members of the newly founded HiperBarrio- Ituango, will publish some of our stories, questions and concerns. We want to speak about our memories, daily Full Article

Despite being a municipality heavily beaten by violence, there is still hope in Ituango, we have dreams to fulfil, we want to make and greet old and new friends, because if there is something that we ituanguinos do well is to be hospitable and friendly As shown in the photo below our town is located in Full Article

Catalina and Milthon, from Convergentes have put together a video during their videoblogging workshop that exposes the lack of safe places to play for children in their community. They play ball on a sloping street or on a monkey bar right next to a steep ledge that drops down to the street below.  In their Full Article