Teachers who are not on any payroll: Hugo and doña Ligia
A rural head teacher and the guardian of a plant nursery — two community educators who have taught us more than we could ever teach them.
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Stories from the páramo, the school and the garden.
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Bonplandia among the 500 Best of Premios Verdes 2026
Pijao's science laboratory was selected among the 500 best environmental projects in Ibero-America — a recognition of the botanical work of the municipality's children.
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The classroom without walls: educating with the páramo
Conservation workshops, a laboratory inside a plant nursery and trips to the ecosystem where water is born — how the territory became our best classroom.
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What listening teaches: Esteban, from Pijao to Medicine
A medical student formed at the Node spends his free hours with Pijao's elders. His lesson goes beyond the clinical.
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Best of her faculty: Mayerly's story
Born in Pijao, she financed her degree with an ICETEX loan, lived at the Node and graduated top of her Law faculty. This is her story, in her words.
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Education is the best investment in progress
The Foundation's educational philosophy — from the garden to the laboratory, from the rural school to university — told through two real scholarship holders.
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The first trip to the Chilí páramo
Environmental education in the ecosystem that gives us our name — the Future Nexus milestone that took Pijao's young people to meet the origin of their water.
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A bridge called Node: stories from the university house
From Pijao to university without housing deciding who studies — the stories of Mayerly, Esteban and the young people of the Pijao Node.
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Schools that are beacons: La Palmera and El Espartillal
The two rural schools where it all began in 2019 — roofs, equipment and the conviction that a dignified classroom is a pillar of peace.
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Bonplandia: the páramo's laboratory
How a plant nursery in Pijao became a free science laboratory where 318 children do real botany.
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To sow is to heal: inside the Tierra Programme
School gardens that become home gardens — the story of the food sovereignty programme told by the people who live it.
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From London to Pijao: the formal birth of the Foundation
Our founder's visit to Lotus Children's Foundation in the United Kingdom and the constitution of the Frailejones Foundation in September 2023.
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31 December 2018: the question that changed everything
A New Year's Eve visit to the Coffee Cultural Landscape, a cup of coffee and the question that gave rise to the Foundation — "How can we help your community?".
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The frailejón and the lotus: two flowers, one water
Why we are called Frailejones — the guardian of the páramo that gives birth to water, and the flower born of water without losing its beauty.
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The history of Pijao: resilience among mountains
Earthquakes, conflict and a peace agreement — how a town of six thousand people in the Coffee Cultural Landscape became fertile ground for hope.
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