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Elkarcredit Itziar Morante

“People must be at the centre of life” / “Las personas han de ser el centro de la vida”

Posted on September 21, 2022September 28, 2022 by BP

BASQUE.press interview with Itziar Morante, project coordinator at Elkarcredit

Entrevista de BASQUE.press a Itziar Morante, coordinadora de proyectos de Elkarcredit

Elkarcredit is a Basque non-profit association that is mainly dedicated to development cooperation and education for social transformation. The projects they carry out are mainly focused on promoting the right to food sovereignty and peasant and popular feminism and on raising social and critical awareness of ethical and alternative finance. With Itziar’s help, we were able to better understand what Elkarcredit is.

Basquepress: If you had to choose a value to represent Elkarcredit, what would it be?

I think there are several values that the organisation defends. For example, commitment, solidarity, justice, fairness and equality, transparency, etc. One of our jobs is to facilitate a critical financial education, so we try to set an example and be transparent in our accounts. Therefore, we make them available on our website for anyone who wants to see them.

Basquepress: What motivated the foundation of the organisation?

Itziar: What motivated the foundation was to help farmers in Central America to market their products, increase local production and promote their development. For this reason, the organisation wanted to promote the so-called ‘putxitos’, small loans of money at very low or even zero interest. Putxitos are understood in Latin America as something small, but very valuable.

Basquepress: Has the fact that you were founded in the Basque Country facilitated/hindered your progress?

Itziar: Public institutions support our work and the promotion of sustainable human development to fight poverty and inequalities. As far as I know, the Basque Country favours international cooperation.

Basquepress: And as far as the citizens are concerned, do you also believe that there is this involvement?

Itziar: Yes, also. There is a very critical citizenry that is very aware of solidarity in general.

Basquepress: Where does the organisation receive financial support from?

Itziar: We mainly receive aid from public institutions: normally local councils (Donostia, Hernani, Leioa, Andoain…); the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Provincial Council of Guipuzcoa and the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation of the Basque Government.

Basquepress: Could you tell us about some of the activities that the organisation is currently developing?

Itziar: For example, we are producing a rap to raise awareness about the climate crisis, about the consequences it is having in the countries of Central America, which form part of the Dry Corridor, and about their situation.

And in the Basque Country we coordinate Finantzaz Haratago, the Basque Network for Education in Ethical and Alternative Finance. We are promoting the creation of different types of materials that can be used by teachers of 4th ESO and 1st Baccalaureate on the one hand, and by the general public on the other. For example, we have created a series of podcasts in which current issues are discussed.

With this type of actions we provide tools for the acquisition of skills and generate a change of aptitudes that will allow us to achieve a society with social justice and full of rights. Societies in which people must be at the centre of life, in which their needs are recognised.

Basquepress: And who do you collaborate with when carrying out these projects?

Itziar: In international cooperation projects, we work with local partners, who are usually organised women’s groups that are part of international movements such as La Via Campesina.

Basquepress: Are you organising any projects for the future?

Itziar: Now we are going to start a new project with the union of farmers and livestock farmers of Euskadi, to revitalise the agricultural and rural world of Bizkaia with migrant and refugee populations. Different courses on agroecology will be organised. The aim on the one hand is to boost the Basque agricultural and rural world, due to the loss of the primary sector, and on the other hand, to benefit people who come in a situation of vulnerability by broadening their range of work or employment and their possibilities of social and labour immersion.

We will also continue our work to promote the social, solidarity and feminist economy, and to promote critical financial education in support of the social economy.

Author: Jon Arrieta
More info about Elkarcredit in: https://elkarcredit.org/

Entrevista de Basque.press a Itziar Morante, coordinadora de proyectos de Elkarcredit

Elkarcredit es una asociación vasca sin ánimo de lucro que se dedica principalmente a la cooperación al desarrollo y la educación para la transformación social. Los proyectos que llevan a cabo están principalmente centrados en fomentar el derecho a la soberanía alimentaria y el feminismo campesino y popular y en generar concienciación social y crítica sobre las finanzas éticas y alternativas. Con la ayuda de Itziar hemos podido comprender mejor qué es Elkarcredit.

Basquepress: ¿Si tuvieses que elegir una valor que representase a Elkarcredit, cual sería? 

Creo que son varios los valores que defiende la organización. Por ejemplo, compromiso, solidaridada, justicia, equidad e igualdad, transparencia, etc. Una de nuestras laborales es facilitar una educación financiera cŕitica, por lo tanto nosotros tratamos de dar ejemplo y ser transparentes en nuestras cuentas. Por eso, las dejamos a disposición de quién las quiera ver en nuestra página web.

Basquepress: ¿Qué motivó la fundación de la organización? 

Itziar: Lo que motivó la fundación fue ayudar a los campesinos y campesinas de Centro América a comercializar sus productos, aumentar la producción local y favorecer su desarrollo. Por ello, la organización quiso impulsar los llamados ‘putxitos’, pequeños préstamos de dinero a un interés muy bajo o incluso nulo. Los putxitos se entiende en Latino América como algo pequeño, pero muy valioso.

Basquepress: ¿El hecho de haber sido fundadas en Euskadi, ha facilitado/entorpecido vuestro progreso? 

Itziar: Las instituciones públicas apoyan nuestro trabajo y la promoción de un desarrollo humano sostenible para luchar contra la pobreza y las desigualdades. Por lo que conozco y sé, Euskadi favorece la cooperación internacional. 

Basquepress: ¿Y en lo que respecta a los ciudadanos, también crees que existe esa involucración? 

Itziar: Sí, también. Hay una ciudadanía muy crítica y muy concienciada con la solidaridad en general.

Basquepress: ¿De dónde recibe la ayuda económica la organización? 

Itziar: Principalmente recibimos ayudas de las instituciones públicas: normalmente ayuntamientos locales (Donostia, Hernani, Leioa, Andoain…); la Diputación foral de Bizkaia y la Diputación foral de Guipúzcoa y la Agencia Vasca de Cooperación al Desarrollo del Gobierno Vasco.

Basquepress: ¿Podrías hablarnos de alguna de las actividades que está desarrollando ahora la organización?

Itziar: Por ejemplo, estamos elaborando un rap para concienciar sobre la crisis climática, sobre las consecuencias que está teniendo en los países de Centroamérica, que forman parte del Corredor Seco y sobre su situación.

Y en Euskadi coordinamos Finantzaz Haratago, la Red Vasca de Educación en Finanzas Éticas y Alternativas. Estamos impulsando la creación de distintos tipos de materiales que por un lado pueda utilizar el profesorado de 4 de la ESO y 1o de Bachillerato, y por otro lado, la ciudadanía en general. Por ejemplo, se ha creado una serie de podcasts en el que se discuten temas de actualidad. 

Con este tipo de acciones proporcionamos herramientas para la adquisición de capacidades y  generar un cambio de aptitudes  que nos permitan alcanzar una sociedad con justicia social y plena de derechos. Sociedades en las que las personas han de ser el centro de la vida, en las que sus necesidades se vean reconocidas.

Basquepress: ¿Y con quién colaborais a la hora de llevar a cabo estos proyectos? 

Itziar: En los proyectos de cooperación internacional, trabajamos con las socias locales, que suelen ser grupos de mujeres organizadas y que forman parte de movimientos internacionales como La Vía Campesina.

Basquepress: ¿Estáis organizando algún proyecto para el futuro? 

Itziar: Ahora vamos a iniciar un nuevo proyecto con el sindicato de personas agricultoras y ganaderas de Euskadi, para revitalizar el mundo agrario y rural de Bizkaia con población migrante y refugiada. Se organizarán diferentes cursos sobre agroecología. El objetivo por un lado es de impulsar el mundo agrario y rural vasco, debido a la pérdida del sector primario, y por otro lado, beneficiar a las personas que vienen en situación de vulnerabilidad ampliando su abanico de trabajo o de empleo y sus posibilidades de inmersión social y laboral.

Asimismo, también vamos a continuar con nuestro trabajo en promover la economía social, solidaria, feminista, e impulsar la educación financiera crítica en apoyo a las economías

Autor: Jon Arrieta
Más información sobre Elkarcredit en: https://elkarcredit.org/

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