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Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavors that are low in fat, oil, salt and sugar-free. These activities look to decrease frequency and severity of non-communicable diseases in the communities, including obesity, diabetes and cholesterol.

The Universidad del Norte Foundation, in accordance with the principles, values and objectives that have guided it since its creation, has as its mission the integral formation of the person in the field of higher education, and the contribution, through its institutional presence in the community, the harmonious development of society and the country, especially the Colombian Caribbean Region. The Foundation carries out this university work both in the undergraduate modality and in advanced training, its work being characterized by a broad social and humanistic content, and by the emphasis on scientific and investigative foundation to respond to the requirements of the progress of science and the social needs of the region and the country. The Institution seeks to train its students as thinking, analytical people with solid ethical principles, who conceive innovative ideas so that they participate in an active, entrepreneurial, responsible, honest, critical and pragmatic way in the process of social, economic and political development. and culture of the community. The University tends because the training it provides is carried out with suitable, qualified teachers with a deep academic vocation. To support them in this task, it is determined to have the most appropriate and advanced teaching, research and extension methods in contemporary higher education. In this sense, science, technology, humanities and the arts will continue to be the distinctive institutional axes for student training. Present in the life of the community through the exercise of its academic functions (teaching, research, extension and services to the external sector), the Universidad del Norte ensures that its directors, professors, students and alumni remain in permanent study, analysis and research of the concrete problems of the community in which they find themselves. Our institution is committed from its origins, in the present and into the future, with all dimensions of social, economic, political, environmental and cultural development, with social responsibility, staying in its proper place of insertion in society, which is the academic.

1.- To support each community in the effort to create and develop its community museum, to strengthen our awareness of our past, its impact on the present, and the possibilities for building a future based on the values of our ancestors. 2.- To unify our communities, sharing our concerns and supporting each other by developing networks at a state, national and international level. 3.- To strengthen community action in education, training, and the recreation of collective memory and practices, through projects that benefit all participating communities.

The Pan and Panela Foundation Non-profit entity aimed at contributing to the needs of food, clothing and comprehensive care in vulnerable communities in the city of Barranquilla and/or the department of Atlantico. Likewise, it seeks to stimulate cultural and recreational activities that aim to improve the quality of life of people who are in a condition of poverty and/or extreme poverty through the creation of projects, programs and alliances with public and private entities.

Work on building a just country by strengthening the quality of life in the community while promoting self-management towards sustainable development.

"Fundacion Proyecto de Vida" provides protection to children and youth in vulnerable conditions, whose basic needs are unsatisfied. We provide help through workshops in arts and sports, school reinforcement, psychosocial support, nutritional care and safe spaces; where they can develop and acquire social, cognitive, emotional, physical and transcendent skills, that helps them face their daily lives and build better life projects.

The University System UNIMINUTO, inspired by the Gospel, the social thought of the Church, the Eudist spirituality and the charisma of the Minute of God, has as its purpose: To offer high quality and relevant higher education with preferential option for those who do not have opportunities to access it, through an innovative, comprehensive and flexible model. To form excellent human beings, competent professionals, ethically oriented and committed to social transformation and sustainable development. To contribute, with our commitment and our testimony, to the construction of a fraternal, just, reconciled and peaceful society.

Codeis is an organization that empowers individuals in situations of risk and vulnerability in Latin America in a sustainable and replicable manner, strengthening their abilities through tools and knowledge in entrepreneurship, social innovation, and leadership. This is achieved by managing processes of excellence and continuous improvement, connecting our community with a regional and global ecosystem.

Our objective is to meet basic needs and impact vulnerable populations that are adjacent to the sector where the organization is located. To do this, we have provided a space designed for them, where they can receive food, clothing, and emotional-spiritual help. We will have a space for children between 2 and 5 years old, in order to teach classes (preschool), since we seek to give children the opportunity to study, since the majority of their parents do not have sufficient resources to pay their education. At this time we have a total number of 15 children, limited to 25 maximum, they enter from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, they receive breakfast, lunch and snacks and preschool education. We plan to be able to receive more children, to be able to feed many more families, but also to work with the mothers of the children who are part of the foundation, through entrepreneurship workshops such as in the kitchen and pastry area. 1. In photograph number one, they are the children we currently have, these children receive education, they also carry out a series of activities to develop their motor skills among other things. These children are from vulnerable families, where parents do not have the money to put them in a private garden. 2. The second photograph is the community kitchen, where we feed approximately 60 people, we give lunches from Monday to Friday, these families are mostly relatives of the children we already have there, we also provide lunches to people who unfortunately do not have enough day to day. 3. In the third photograph, it is a pastry workshop that we teach to women, with the hope that they learn a trade and can find a job related to the training that is provided to them. 4. In the fourth photograph are workshops that we carry out with parents, where we seek to guide them on the topic of respectful parenting with their children but also work on the skills that they should have as parents

To improve the quality of life of a low-income community by forming stable families and providing protection, education, nutrition, community development, and psychosocial intervention to unprotected children based on virtues and moral values centered on the Catholic faith. Additionally, to train adults in various trades, thereby facilitating employment opportunities and family self-sustainability.

TerritoriA is the support organization of the Territorial Foundations Movement in Colombia. Together, we promote community philanthropy as a vehicle to contribute to the engine of autonomous and sustainable development.

The Foundation was created with the purpose of ensuring the comprehensive well-being of children and adolescents from communities in situations of manifest weakness or defenselessness, in marginalized or more vulnerable areas, in the most remote regions of Colombia, which are generally affected by major social conflicts. Through education and sports (mainly football) to give them a better future.