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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.

Somos una Corporacion con valores y necesidades comunes, que administramos recursos provenientes alianzas y donaciones y gestionamos beneficios para el bienestar de los corporados, sus familias y las comunidades cercanas. El Objeto social Principal de la corporacion es la promocion, ejecucion y desarrollo de toda clase de politicas, estrategias, proyectos, planes y programas de caracter social que permita facilitar el acceso a mejores condiciones de vida por parte de los sectores menos favorecidos de la poblacion; con el proposito de promover el bienestar de los corporados y el desarrollo de sus capacidades. 1. Actividades de desarrollo social, que comprende las siguientes actividades: A) proteccion, asistencia y promocion de los derechos de las poblaciones de especial proteccion constitucional, minorias, poblaciones en situacion de vulnerabilidad, exclusion y discriminacion; tales como ninos, ninas, adolescentes y jovenes, personas con discapacidad, personas mayores, grupos y comunidades etnicas, victimas del conflicto, poblacion desmovilizada, mujeres, poblacion con orientacion sexual e identidad de genero diversa, poblacion reclusa, poblacion en situacion de pobreza y pobreza extrema, poblacion rural o campesina entre otras. B) desarrollo, promocion, mejoramiento de la calidad y cobertura de los servicios pUblicos y los servicios pUblicos domiciliarios, asi como el avance en las metas de desarrollo fijadas por la organizacion de las naciones unidas. C) actividades orientadas a la promocion y desarrollo de la transparencia, al control social, a la lucha contra la corrupcion, a la construccion de paz, al desarrollo de las politicas pUblicas y la participacion ciudadana. D) actividades de apoyo a la recreacion de familias de escasos recursos, desarrollo y mantenimiento de parques y centros de diversion, siempre y cuando sean para acceso general a la comunidad. 2. Cultura. Actividades culturales definidas por la ley 397 de 1997 y aquellas actividades de promocion y desarrollo de la actividad cultural. 3. Actividades de proteccion al medio ambiente. Conservacion, recuperacion, proteccion, manejo, uso y aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales renovables y el medio ambiente sostenible. 4. Promocion y apoyo a las actividades deportivas definidas por la ley 181 de 1995, mediante las politicas pUblicas y las entidades competentes. 5. Actividades de desarrollo empresarial. Promocion del desarrollo empresarial y el emprendimiento definido por la ley 1014 de 2006. 6. Promocion y apoyo a los derechos humanos y los objetivos globales definidos por las naciones unidas. 7. Promocion y apoyo a entidades sin animo de lucro que ejecuten acciones directas en el territorio nacional en alguna de las actividades meritorias descritas en este articulo.

We contribute to the strengthening and restoration of family relationships, contributing socially to the formation of confident, joyful, proactive and committed citizens with society, the country and the world, based on the foundation of love.

mitigate and prevent homelessness and protect migrant children; through the formulation and implementation of self-sustaining and innovative pedagogical, social, and human strategies, the right to the street and the city, the use of ICTs, and the empowerment of leaders in conjunction with different social entities and organizations.

To unite economic and social interests in favor of environmental culture, promoting environmental education, volunteering and nature conservation.

To protect wild birds and their habitats in Colombia through research, direct conservation action, and community outreach.

The Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental, apolitical entity without sectarianism, whose purpose is the development, promotion, and execution of social, educational, cultural, and welfare programs and projects aimed at communities in vulnerable situations, with special emphasis on the municipality of Salgar, Antioquia (Colombia), and other areas where its work can generate a positive impact.

The mission and goal of ICDO is the promotion of cultural diversity, inclusivity, interculturalism, human rights, as well as raising awareness of different cultural expressions and their values with the aim of fostering cultural interaction in order to bring people together and bridge cultural gaps. In addition, ICDO acts, promotes and conserves biodiversity, environment, and sustainability for the wellbeing of humanity.

En La Poderosa, el cambio lo lideran las personas mas afectadas por la exclusion. Todas las iniciativas son disenadas, implementadas y evaluadas por los propios residentes. No prestamos servicios, sino que desarrollamos capacidades para que las comunidades sean plenamente duenas de sus soluciones. Nuestros valores guian la forma en que nos organizamos, decidimos y actuamos: Las asambleas vecinales autogestionadas impulsan todas las decisiones. Los miembros de la comunidad hablan por si mismos, como portavoces, promotores de salud o fundadores de cooperativas. En toda America Latina, vecinos y voluntarios se unen para defender los derechos y mejorar la vida cotidiana. La solidaridad y el respeto impulsan todo, desde comedores populares hasta centros culturales, cooperativas y escuelas. La Poderosa es un laboratorio de alternativas construidas por la comunidad. Desde cooperativas de economia solidaria hasta presupuestos participativos, estamos probando modelos que desafian los sistemas extractivos y reimaginan como se puede organizar la sociedad.

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.

Our organization provides nutrition, recreational education and workshops wich are aimed to parent support in their duties towards their children. With the assurance of their well being in their second home (our home).

CEPALC's mission is to serve organized poor sectors in Colombia through education and journalism, using various forms of communication, in order to help them know dignity and how to defend their rights.