On his way to Cuba from Mozambique, key multi-lingual workshop consultant, Orlando Espinosa from Cecat, took advantage of the stopover at Grupo Sofonias contact office in Switzerland. Recently EcoSouth has been searching through old documents to digitalize information about MCR workshops in Latin America, a Herculean task, and Orlando´s inputs helped sort out some questions. This research will be extended to include workshops on other continents.
Past editions Edition #4, June 2004 Orlando Espinosa enroute through Switzerland
Kurt Rhyner
Architect, PhD. Professor
Spanish, English, German, French.
Project conception, analysis of technologies and materials appropriate to the specific situation, financial analysis, executive management, backstopping, evaluations
In 2005, SofoNic has started a dual education program for masons in Nicaragua, using its house-building programs as a base. Teaming up with the local technical school in Jinotepe they are graduating about ten masons every year since. Most f them have found jobs in construction or have started a business on their own. SofoNic has contracted several of them as master masons in the reconstruction programs in Haiti.
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