CIERIC call. Virtual space for the exchange of youth experiences that undertake a path for the welfare of their community, environment and other areas of action
The Community Initiative Exchange and Reference Center (CIERIC) invites you to participate in a virtual space that will be held…
Men, pandemics and masculinities focus virtual debate from Cuba
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Men, stereotypes, concerns, health problems, paternity, among other problems were the main issues addressed by…
Institutional Educational Community Experience: On the Wings of a Hummingbird
The project On the Wings of a Hummingbird is a community, institutional and educational experience that supports the project of…
TEN YEARS OF THE PROJECT OF INTEGRATION AND SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF AFRO-AMERICANS
BY LISANDRA PÉREZ COTO Ten years ago not even Yoelkis Torres Tápanes himself could have ensured the scope of an…
Talking with Yoelkis Torres, coordinator of the Afro-Atena community project
By: Raúl Soublet During the last weeks I was visiting the province of Matanzas, where for the first time I…
Various projects debate LGBTIQ+ activism in Matanzas
Text and photo by: Angela LaksmiThe urgency of establishing common agendas and working alliances among LGBTQ+ groups in the context…
The trans community organizes in Cuba before the COVID-19
During the last month, Cuban civil society has carried out a series of initiatives, a necessary response to the threat…
Local development, culture, equity and responsible citizenship in Matanzas
On the tenth anniversary of the Project of Intervention, Integration and Afro-Atena Socio-Cultural Transformation, its socio-cultural management is consolidated with…
FLACSO supports the local development of Matanzas
For Geydis Fundora, professor of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Havana (FLACSO), it is…
A Youth Club for the Community from AfroAthens
Joven Club de Computación y Electrónica (JCCE) at the Cultural Management Center for Development Villanueva, headquarters of the Project for…
Reborn, Resist, Grow and Follow. Welcome to our page. June 28, 2020.
For 11 years, AfroAtenAs has been transiting multiple sectors or spheres of community work. Transformation and learning have been difficult…
An Alley in the Caribbean.
By: Dr. Pedro Ramón de Jesús Ureña Rib. Minister Counselor of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in CubaThe Alley…
An Alley with many exits
By: Madeleine Sautié Rodríguez One of the most intense nursery rhymes of all time speaks of the willingness to put…
A Singing School for amateur matancer
BY LAURA GONZÁLEZ SOLÉS, JOURNALISM STUDENTToday, amateur singers find a solution to their training needs in the Athens Vive singing…
El Callejón de las Tradiciones, an experience of community work and much more…
By: Dr. Jesus Guanche. Hebei University of Foreign Studies – People’s Republic of China In one of many visits to…
Call for Capacity Building Workshops
Calls for proposalsDearest and dearest, Friends of the LGBTIQA+ citizens of Matanzas, from the Community Experience Matanzas Inclusive City of…
A Prologue from Fabelo. CIERIC
Anchored in a complex neighborhood and community reality, emerging from the needs and aspirations of groups and people who inhabit…
LGBTI projects in Cuba articulate initiatives against covid
The theme was the focus of a virtual forum held the day before as part of the 13th edition of…
Citizen initiatives help vulnerable people in Cuba
As in other latitudes, small citizen initiatives promote voluntary support networks for groups facing difficulties in dealing with the pandemic…
AFROATENAS: The great challenge of sociocultural self-management on the island of Cuba
Por Pía Paganelli[1] Between Havana and Varadero, the two current major tourist poles of the Island of Cuba, and equidistant…
More than rumba in an alley
More than rumba in an alleyOn the banks of the San Juan River, when the Yumurina Calzada de Tirry ends,…
