During my study economics, I started working 25 years ago in the financial department of finance the local government of Guayaquil, Ecuador. After this, I worked as a financial specialist in the Bank of Guayaquil, the second largest bank of Ecuador and with Price Waterhouse as a financial auditor. In 1991 I moved to Bolivia and made a move into a completely different sector. There I worked as the financial manager of a not-for-profit foundation working for indigenous people in eastern Bolivia. The Foundation sets up projects in agriculture and forestry. In 2000 I got the chance to start working with a national program that searches for the integration of Information and Communication Technologies in development projects in Bolivia. The programs are supported by the International Institute for Communication and Development, based in the Netherlands. In this program ICT is used to strengthen agriculture, forestry, education and I set up my own company, GEPROBOL in 2004, to formulate and lobby for large-scale projects in to get to know the Dutch culture and language. And in practice I found much more than I expected: an intelligent and enthusiastic group of women. This is what I found as a volunteer training in the Cybersoek project! |