Ed Broadbent

Community developer and project manager with over 5 years of experience directing Primed Community from Medellín, Colombia. Creating opportunities and impact through providing integral education opportunities to people in situations of vulnerability.

What I love to do

Community Cocreations

Creamos que lo mejor se contruye juntos y esto es que nos anima a seguir construyendo.

Project Design and Implementation

We implement projects related to education, development, health and community wellbeing.

Skills Development and Training

We development courses and workshops within a comprehensive, content and based pedagogy.

Integral Health Education

We integrate health and wellbeing education materials into our projects to amplify our impact.

What I’ve learnt

100%

Public Health / Health Promotion

92%

Community Psychology

89%

Educational Pedagogies

What’s been done?

1000+ beneficiaries of our community projects
3 project chapter in Medellín
5 pilot projects ready to go
Integrated learning platform
Full international language program
Skills & development courses

What’s been said?

"People lack opportunity, not skill - Ed Broadbent"

Article

El Espectador

"This iniciative fills us with pride, Primed Community"

News Piece

Noticias Caracol

"Una iniciativa necesaria para fortalecer la educación en los territorios"

Finalist

Socialab

"generando oportunidades para transformar realidades a través de la educación en la comunas"

Interview

Recon Colombia

Professional development

After a life changing motorbike accident in India, studies in psychology and public health (health promotion) and a visit to Comuna 13 in Medellín, Primed Community was created.

beginning of 2016

Stairway to English in Comuna 13

Volunteer English classes in San Javier, Medellín that were started by Milena Paravilla and expanded and evolved by Primed Community.

end of 2016

Santo Domingo Tour Workshop

Primed connected with Phillipa Coleman from the University of Queensland to help facilitate a series of workshops so young students could do a tour.

2017

Storyteller formation in San Javier

After being inspired by the idea in Santo Domingo and listening to stories of our students being hungry for opportunity (especially Stiven) we decided to cocreate a language learning project that could result in work opportunities.

End of 2017

Storyteller formation in Santo Domingo

Using the initial inspiration from the pilot tour we expanded and continued classes and formation in Santo Domingo to improve their offer.

Start of 2018

Community Garden - San Javier

Community integration to connect actors and local entities to start looking after their spaces. The famous ampitheatre now used in music video clips was the first face we helped change.

2018

Community Garden - Santo Domingo

With the support of El Cedezo we created a rooftup recycled garden with our community and allies.

End of 2018

Community English - San Javier Library

After our success near the escalators we decided to take advantage of the local resources and move the project to the local San Javier Library and allow for up to 100 people in 1 class!

2018

Pilot Project -Termales, El Chocó

Connecting with local allies we did a pilot program with 20% of the population in Termales - A beautiful place in El Chocó for sustainable tourism and whale watching.

End of 2019

Clases comunitarios en linea

Because of the global pandemic we moved our classes online and had students from around the world.

2019

Initial investigation - Rio Sucio, Caldas

Through community connections we started our investigation to help some amazing local indigineous communities share their story.

Start of 2021

Pilot Project - Moravía

Thanks to an invitation from the CDCM we were able to start a pilot of our program with the community in Moravía.

End of 2021

Storyteller Formation - Moravía

With the support of Recon Colombia and other backers we were able to continue our work in Moravía with local students.