Nicole Martínez talks to the people behind Saber Trabajar, an organisation that promotes employment through education.

Barely distinguishable through the long grass, the concrete stumps that are the beginnings of a sustainable compound being developed for Bolivian communities in Buenos Aires province.

Cascos Verdes is an organisation with big ideas. Founded just four years ago, it is an NGO that has created university course for young people with Down’s Syndrome, in which they learn about caring for different aspects of the environment. Participants of the programme then go to schools, where they teach children what they have studied

“We were capable, We are capable.” The slogan has repeated itself on government radio and television adverts throughout Argentina, which is celebrating 200 years since the 25th May revolution that eventually led to the country’s independence on 9th July 1816. The natural question such a slogan begs, “of what exactly?” One assumes its independence from Spain. Yet two centuries later, though nobody’s colony, many are still asking: How independent is Argentina really?