What is our story?
En 2016, Marline went to South America to give a hand on sustainable development projects lead by locals. During this trip she thought about creating Adelarte, in order to offer to other the possibility to rewarding experience working with communities in their own development projects.
Many associations help indigenous communities, some of them forget to base their action on the local culture and to involve the communities during the realization phase. Well, as wrote Confucius « Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand».
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Marline’s will is not to help, in the meaning of give, but to escort considering first local solutions. Convinced of federator power of art she decided to put it at the heart of her project, Adelarte being a composition of « adelante » (going forward in Spanish) and « arte » and meaning let’s move forward thanks to art.​
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In 2017, in the up north of Colombia is built the project "TOGETHER WITH THE ETNO-EDUCATIVE CENTER #12 OF LA GUAJIRA AND THE WAYUU CULTURE". From january 2018 to june 2020, about 30 international volunteers contribute to its implementation during 1 to 4 months.
Who are the founders?
Marline Fayollet
President
After studying corporate management and social responsibility, she worked 5 years for a multinational in order to reduce its environmental impact and improve its social one among the whole value chain.
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This international experience convinced her that nothing worth experience to learn, that knowledge is power and that local context must be considered in order offered solutions to be accepted and lasting ones.
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Her Latin and nomad soul makes her a lover of dancing and travelling to remote places.