We are excited to announce the formation of a ReFi Local Node in Medellín, led by Juan Giraldo, Tereza Bizkova, Alejandro Soto, Eamonn, Sergio, Green Digital guardians and Dotlabs() to nurture community conversations around Web3 enabled regenerative-oriented-innovations (ROIs). Our aim is to empower the youth in Medellín to address some of our city's most pressing challenges through hackathons, incubation, and investment. These challenges include poverty, inequality, youth unemployment, and a general lack of access to resource flows such as energy, water, sanitation, housing, and education.

Our aim is to empower the youth in Medellín to address some of our city's most pressing challenges through hackathons, incubation, and investment. These challenges include poverty, inequality, youth unemployment, and a general lack of access to resource flows such as energy, water, sanitation, housing, and education.

We kindly ask for your support and donations, so we can start our journey of youth-led education for regeneration!

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• Engage the local community

  Host four ReFi Medellín events over the next year. These events will include expert guest speakers in ReFi, Web3, and urban challenges in Latin American cities.

• ReFi Hackathons

  We hope to engage young people from different developers communities and different universities, and private sector organizations interested in Web3 and sustainability.

• Support Web3 and Regenerative Oriented Innovations (ROIs)

  Incubate and invest in social enterprises that come out of ReFi Medellín hackathons.

• Impact Onboarding

  Any active ecological group or group or friends that wants to do an impact activity such as planting trees, cleaning environments, garbage collection, etc. can reach us and ask for support.

• Keep Medellín as Eternal Spring City

  Activity dedicated to plant flowers and help regenerate the flower insect in Medellín, helping this way to protect Medellín as a Eternal Spring City.

• ReFi Medellín Workshops

  Host meetups about ReFi and ecology in different places of the city.

• Juan Giraldo is a highly motivated individual with a passion for exploring alternative perspectives and challenging conventional social systems. He holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering and is Specialist in Preparation and Evaluation of Private Projects. Additionally, he is a Government Contracting Specialist, and holds a Master's degree in Project Management.

  As a responsible and professional leader, he possesses strong project management skills and demonstrates a deep commitment to social and environmental issues. His specific area of interest lies within agricultural sciences, with a particular focus on knowledge transfer.

  In addition to his academic pursuits, he is an avid stock market enthusiast and pioneer of emerging technologies and markets. As an early adopter of Blockchain technology, he has contributed to its growth and development and remains curious about the ongoing technological revolution. He’s also a System Technologist, which has given him a broad understanding of technology and its impact on various industries.

• Tereza Bízková is a Czech journalist and tech writer based in Colombia. She works as the Ecosystem Communication Manager at Topl. With her curiosity for all things tech, together with her master’s degree in Defense, Development, and Diplomacy, Tereza loves exploring how innovative solutions advance meaningful change.

• Alejandro Soto is a full stack developer and a Co-Founder at dotlabs(), he loves to teach about blockchain, web3 and ReFi. Has collaborated in some spaces of free education in Medellin city, is member of ETHMedellín and ETHColombia DAO, and is very passionate about astronomy in his free time.

• Eamonn set up his first online fitness business while studying Sports Science in University, which had clients worldwide. Later Eamonn transitioned into marketing and business development where he has been working for the last 7 years. Currently the marketing manager for Bitgreen and co-founder of his own marketing portfolio with 9 million followers.

• Sergio Martinez was involved in the crypto world since the end of 2016, in charge of participating in community aid projects such as Agouti which gave community lunches in Venezuela, later participating in a project of tokenization of beer assets and the construction of crypto ATM systems. Sergio is currently an active member of dotlabs() Medellín, which is in charge of educating the community in the exciting world of blockchain.

• Green Digital Guardians' purpose is to create the biggest community of Green Digital Guardians of The Green Arks of The Planet Earth where new technologies such as Blockchain and NTFs will allow laying the foundations for a decentralized model of environmental protection, supportive, visionary, and democratic.

We believe that through ReFi Medellín, we can create a more socially inclusive and ecologically regenerative urbanism. Your support will enable us to make a significant impact on the lives of young people in our community, and we appreciate your donation.