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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 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.

AIPC Pandora is a non-profit organization that works to generate the knowledge and the capacity of action needed at the international level for the construction of a more just and peaceful world. For this, we develop Global Learning Experiences for educational, intercultural, solidarity or professional insertion in one of the 57 countries in which we are present. We work both in Outbound / Outbound and Inbound / Host projects in Spain, offering transformative experiences based on the "Learning-Service" methodology that form global citizens in how to intervene in the great challenges of the world today.

MISSION: To Change paradigm of disability by means of the participation in an inclusive social and labor space. VISION: While supporting the population in the development of resources a living in a world of limitation, create awareness, knowledge, and resources to plant the seed of social, educational and labor inclusion. THEORY OF CHANGE: If we attend the needs of people with disabilities according to their specific needs and we create awareness to open opportunities for inclusion, this population can earn a living by performing based on their skills and capabilities and live a better life without dependency on others.

Panorama Sostenible Foundation's mission is to overcome the conditions of indignity prevailing in this community with dire social situation, due to lack of opportunities and displacement in order to transform the children and their community into a sustainable and inclusive society; We focus on its vulnerable populations through comprehensive training educational programs that help improve children's lives as well as the community's standard of living and creates conditions for a dignified life, reduce the effects of social corruption while always keeping in mind the preservation of the environment.

The Juan Pablo Gutierrez Caceres Foundation has been working since 2007 supporting Colombian graduate students that do not have the economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. So far, 346 scholarships have been awarded to students that are positively transforming their personal, academic and working lives and supporting the development of their communities.The candidates' profile has been students interested in critical areas for Colombia's development, leadership and with limited economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. A successful process starts with the selection of the right candidates where the Foundation ensures that the resources obtained by donations are properly used. We also have procedures and structures that follow the performance of students. We ensure that each scholarship awarded ends with a successful degree. The Juan Pablo Gutierrez Caceres Foundation has been working since 2007 supporting Colombian graduate students that do not have the economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. So far, 346 scholarships have been awarded to students that are positively transforming their personal, academic and working lives and supporting the development of their communities. The candidates' profile has been students interested in critical areas for Colombia's development, leadership and with limited economic resources to pursue postgraduate studies. A successful process starts with the selection of the right candidates where the Foundation ensures that the resources obtained by donations are properly used. We also have procedures and structures that follow the performance of students. We ensure that each scholarship awarded ends with a successful degree.

"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.