Colombia

Fundación Carvajal is working to close the learning gap and improve school performance in 35 schools in Cali, offering opportunities to students from vulnerable backgrounds.

The project “Towards a comprehensive education: promotes the comprehensive education of children from displaced families from the countryside, who have either fled the Colombian armed conflict or who have migrated from Venezuela.

The project provides comprehensive care and protection to children from 2 to 5 years of age living in the city of Medellín whose rights have been violated or threatened and/or who are at nutritional risk, through educational, nutritional, health and psychosocial support.

Encourage the development of creative education for the 21st century with a focus on rights and equal opportunities for children and young people through innovative methods and / or through the application of new technologies. Fight against poverty and inequalities, promoting individual and collective co-responsibility for activities that promote critical awareness.

In an environment marked by violence, the NU3 Foundation offers active support to the population, taking care of their health, promoting peace and generating opportunities. Its aim is to get families out of poverty and into a life project.

Fundación Juanfe offers education and work for teenage mothers in Cartagena in order to help them escape the poverty trap. They learn how to empower themselves and how to provide their children with a stable environment where they can have a healthy childhood safe from violence and extreme poverty.

The project Education, Health and Welfare for Teen Pregnancy helps teenage mothers during their pregnancies and provides them with the training they need to help them raise their children.

FANA (the Foundation for the Assistance of Abandoned Children) offers comprehensive care and protection to children in vulnerable situations where their rights are affected, whether due to abandonment, mistreatment, abuse or neglect. The children live in FANA’s facilities while a family is found for them that guarantees their rights and offers them the love they need.

The Laudes Infantis Foundation is carrying out the “School for leaders of social and productive enterprises” project and a community project based on bartering to improve opportunities for the most disadvantaged in Bogotá

The Colombian Foundation for Development (FUCOLDE), is carrying out the “Values for Coexistence and Skills for Youth Employment” and “Programa Integral Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes con Oportunidades” (Comprehensive Program for Boys, Girls and Adolescents) projects through which it seeks to produce environments of healthy coexistence and safe spaces that prevent child recruitment by armed groups.

The Dharma Foundation, has set up a home for children with cancer in which 105 minors from low income backgrounds receive education, food and health care in Bogotá, Colombia.