The TROCA project LouisaJane MacInnes, Plockton High School

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The TROCA project Louisa-Jane MacInnes, Plockton
High School

• The Plockton High School branch of the project is
  called TROCAPLOC. TROCA is the name of the core
  project which I have set up in Ecuador, Brazil
  and here in Scotland. The word TROCA means
  change and exchange in both Spanish and
  Portuguese which is convenient and easy to say in
  English.
• The main hope I have for the project is that it
  brings youth groups in each community closer
  together as they learn about the respective
  lifestyle, culture, hopes and aspirations or the
  different communities. Moreover, the project
  empowers the young people to run a small
  co-operative enterprise, discussing marketing and
  management ideas and making all their committee
  decisions democratically. It allows them to see
  the practical results and consequences of their
  actions and work with and from that.

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• Carnival fish float Most of the people you see
  in this photograph are artists and joiners from
  the TROCA Ecuador project (apart from the two
  obvious Scottish faces). Whilst I was in Ecuador
  I was involved in this carnival arts project
  based on Ecuadorian folklore. I hope to find
  funding this year (2006) to bring over 3 artists
  to work with school groups in the Highland and
  Glasgow area to create a Celtic Carnival. It
  would be based on a mixture of Scottish,
  especially Gaelic folklore, some more recent
  folklore enriching Scotland brought to us by
  asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants, mixed of
  course with the Latin spice!

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A Fair Trade Reel Kimberly and Chris practice
piping, proudly displaying their purchases from
the TROCA Ecuador project.
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Some work being done on a carnival train, Ecuador
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• Group photo of some of the TROCAPLOC group, at
  the bench just outside the school grounds.

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Alison and Malcolm show how Spanish can combine
with global citizenship
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One of the co-operatives we will support in the
future is beginning to make silk scarves, all the
wool is hand spun.
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• Nyeke y mas Nyeke is the name of the group TROCA
  works and twins with. It is a citizenship
  project teaching life skills and rights to young
  people often orphaned or experiencing difficult
  home situations. The name of the group is
  Quechuan, courage and more courage.

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Rice to the poor. We hosted a rich person, poor
person meal event at the school one evening where
almost 80 people from the school and local
community attended. (Considering we have a school
role of 350 and many of our school communities
are very wide spread we were really pleasantly
surprised). The event was organised and catered
by the TROCAPLOC group
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Some TROCA goods
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• Young girl in Ecuador who will benefit from the
  project.