Interesting blogs, stories and experiences by our development workers.
Progressio development workers are experienced and professionally qualified specialists who offer skills, expertise and knowledge that is not available locally. The key role of our development workers is to transfer their skills and knowledge to our partner organisations. Together with the partner organisations, they work alongside local people, supporting them to find solutions to the problems they face.

Development worker Sonja Bleeker
6 October 2011
Personal Experience: Sonja Bleeker
Sonja is a Dutch development worker, currently working as a specialist in water management with...
Environment, Peru, Sustainable environment
Broccoli plantations in Quito, Ecuador (© Santiago Serrano/Progressio)
6 September 2011
The water, food and energy nexus
We only have a limited amount of freshwater on this planet, so how do we use it? Petra Kjell...
Climate change, Water, Environment
Empower volunteers on the cornfield
8 August 2011
El Salvador: environmentalism in action
I wasn’t sure what this blog's theme would be, I intended to just update you on the week’s...
El Salvador, Environment
Kids on the beach at El Tamarindo, El Salvador
22 July 2011
El Salvador: teaching young people to care for the environment
I just got back from El Salvador where I went to see an environmental project in El Tamarindo,...
El Salvador, Environment
Children in Nahuaterique with placards calling for better education
14 July 2011
Honduras/El Salvador: The town that doesn’t exist
Yesterday I visited some Progressio partners in the place known as Nahuaterique in Honduras. Set...
El Salvador, Honduras, Participation, Environment, Fragile states
Vine Falls, Honduras.
11 July 2011
Empowering people to protect their forests
“We the communities must fight together to prevent deforestation and secure water”, a yellow card...
Water, Honduras, Environment

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