Author: Javier Palacio (Javier Palacio)

At the beginning of the year 2024, we are pleased to report on the outcomes of our efforts during the last months.

We are pleased to share our first News Letter of 2023. We highlight the support of CANPACK-Colombia with the financing of the "Finish your Highschool" Educational Program. We also thank the AMA association of Belgium for funding the 2022 theatre classes, led by Professor Ana Mazhari. Additionally, the first two bachelors of the program graduated high school in November. We will start our newsletter with the arrival of the new volunteers and we will finish it with the projects for 2023.

With our first newsletter of the year 2022, we want to announce the completion of the library started in 2019, which bears the name of our great friend Roberto Villaquiran. Thanks to his effort and dedication with his group of friends from Europe and Colombia, he gathered the funds that were missing to finish it. The chairs and tables were a gift from CANPACK Colombia.

Despite health restrictions, we had the opportunity to travel with our own funds from Brussels to the social work on 4 occasions during 2021, providing clothes, toys and didactic material for the Ludoteca. At the same time, we purchased building materials and verified the works in progress: construction of the library, renovation of the nursery for children between 0 and 5 years old and extension of the Ludoteca for young people between 6 and 15 years old.

We are happy to share our newsletter for 2021 with you.

We wish you a Happy New Year! Thanks to your solidarity and support we were able to help the most vulnerable families and their children through this very hard 2020. Furthermore, the various projects we could launch make us hopeful that the community will sustain this crisis and beyond.

We would like to invite you to visit this wonderful exhibition of Ikal Independent Art & Martin's Atelier, which hosts a generous charitable auction supporting our foundation.

Our Foundation was linked in September with the Belgian Association AMA (Supports Mothers who Help). Thanks to the great work of these Colombian mothers, residing in Belgium, we are promoting a solidarity campaign, the objective of which is to collect as much money as possible for the purchase of food. To this end, AMA is currently organizing sports activities and the sale of used clothing.

Thanks to your ‘adopt a family’ donations, our foundations managed to deliver the food boxes to a total of 60 families (248 persons) from April to June 2020. Our foundation also managed to continue the delivery to all these families from July to September 2020; until now 480 boxes have been delivered.

We initially bought 400 masks in June and we distributed additional 4600 masks donated by the Grupo Carvacaro SA in August.