Fabiana García, Territorial Coordinator and Rural Development of INTA Balcarce, Facundo Quiroz, Director of the INTA Balcarce Experimental Station were visiting the Liberté facilities this last Friday as part of a tour together with Silvia and Mauricio, the two permanent contributors of techniques and ruralist logistics in our space from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology.
The occasion served not only to discuss the achievements of our space, but there was also time to reflect on the tasks in the organic garden and the chicken coop, with the same characteristics, and the opportunity served to strengthen the link between the state organization and our cooperative.
On a personal level, Fabiana García tells us in the report, she really wanted to get to know Liberté because where I live we had a radio space, on a community radio station called ORE TAPÉ, where the Proyecto Mecha radio podcast was broadcast, widely listened to, produced from a prison cell, and that curiosity was always installed, how will it be inside, how will that program be put together, (it should be noted that today that same B. Juárez station is transmitting weekly the radio podcast of Aires de Liberté, belonging to our space).
Today we find ourselves with this entire organization, which has different productive units and they all feed each other because we saw the carpentry, we saw the blacksmith shop, the warehouse, the rotisserie, the vegetable garden, or the chicken coop, everything is fed back and the truth is that's how it has to be function, both in the penal unit and outside it, this dignifies people, it is what I think you do, thank you for teaching us all this, for opening your doors to us and really showing us that it is possible, to change many structures that are sometimes Many practices that are very naturalized are very entrenched in society, and even many ways of thinking that sometimes have to do with prejudice and that from here we see that it can be different.
Quiroz referred to Liberté about the related work, and said he was very surprised by everything he was going through and everything he was seeing and continued to express, in terms more related to our metié, he told Liberté, adding, the productive part At this time, having these levels of orchards, production levels, the truth is that they are very surprising, a large area and a great variety, greenhouse work, farm work, the truth is that it is very surprising, but what surprises me the most And what strikes me, I point out, is the level of organization and cordiality that the cooperative has.
He regretted not being able to get to know the sector of Liberté related to its beginnings, he went on to say that he had seen a diversity, a level of organization, practically sustaining a large part of the demands that the prison itself has and at the same time giving work and opportunities to those who participate in the cooperative, finally, I emphasize that is what he took away from this visit, Facundo Quiroz.
The Territorial Coordinator and Rural Development of INTA Balcarce, comments that in Benito Juárez, there is an organization of productive units that feed each other, and that it is very similar to Liberté, and remembers that I told her that from here they are thinking of working so that this same materializes outside the prison, and that in fact there is already a person from the board of directors who is today in a state of freedom, understanding that today he is one step away from achieving that dream that is also part of the insertion and indicates What self-management work has to do with entrepreneurship, being your own boss, being able to decide on your own life, understanding that it is essential both inside and outside.
Source: Liberte