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FUNDOWN CARIBE is a private non profit organization of common utility and private enterprise, whose main objective is to facilitate an integral attention to the population with Down Syndrome in the Colombian Caribbean Coast; offering support, harness and promoting the development of the capacities of these individuals, offering an attention that improves their quality of life, to forge their autonomy and inclusion in the family, school, work and society.-Workshops, Seminars and Conferences directed to parents and guardians of kids, youngsters and adults with Down Syndrome

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.

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.

The foundation`s mission is to support public policies and private initiatives aimed at improving the care of children with cancer, through support actions related to the promotion of the aforementioned information , information on childhood cancer, incidence, social research, social and psychological support that help them to face the disease and improve their living conditions. In order to fulfill this mission, it will seek to expand its coverage to the entire national territory, by creating subsidiaries or correspondents such as offices and commercial establishments or through agreements signed with other non-profit entities, national or foreign in order to contribute its knowledge and expertise in the matter. For the achievement of the above, it will have a solid administrative and financial organization and the use of educational, technological and guidance resources. FOUNDING PRINCIPLE The SANAR Foundation has been from its beginning a work of God, this was specifically expressed in the Act of Constitution of the Foundation, which expresses the will of the founders and consists of a brief declaration signed by 71 people on February 27th, 1985, which reads as follows: Assured of Gods presence and patronage and under the generous reception of those who by our signature here commit ourselves, we, as members of the human family and as Christians, assume the joint responsibility of structuring a non-profit organization whose main purpose will be to help children with cancer and also their families. We will persevere with this purpose until hopefully no child is left without the best option that medicine, according to progress, can offer for the treatment and cure of this disease. We are convinced that God and Colombian society will support us in this endeavor and endorse with our signature the birth of SANAR." This fact is documented in the book "Science has a limit, Love doesnt", published on December 2006 on the occasion of the 20 years of the Foundation, ( a copy of some of the pages of this book are attached, including the prologue written by Father Javier De Nicolo, friend of the Foundation, who rests in eternal life). The President of SANAR, Luis Guillermo Angel Correa has been persistent maintaining this foundational aspect throughout the years. He is a man of faith and experienced firsthand the drama of cancer in his family, always finding God at each stage of the process as he expresses in a valuable testimony that we attach to this document. In the most difficult moments, SANAR has always found a guiding light and has witnessed miracles that have allowed it to continue its work despite the difficulties. Loyal to the will of our founders, an annual day of re-induction has been established in which all the employees of the Foundation participate and the Christian origins of SANAR are remembered, ending the day with a Eucharist to give thanks for the achievements and commend the Lord the resolutions for the New Year and the intentions of our benefactors, collaborators, volunteers and donors.

To promote the development of singing skills, music and arts in children and youth with talent, thus educating and contributing to social transformation of the most vulnerable communities within the Metropolitan Area of Medellin. Our work is done with the help of artist teachers who are also committed with the children's formation in values.

Protection and Welfare of all animals and their environment. Spay and neuter programes. Education, awareness. Love to the forgotten, comfort to the sick and care for the blind, deaf and dying. Changing lives.

Fundacion Bahia y Ecosistemas de Colombia is a non-governmental non-profit organization created with the purpose of cleaning the bay of Cartagena and its surrounding bodies, protecting their ecosystems and promoting the adaptation of the city to climate change. We are an organization that brings together people and institutions with vast experience in the environmental and business sector of the city, committed to improving the bay of Cartagena and the city. The Foundation is guided by the best science available and seeks the financial sustainability of all the projects it undertakes. Our basic lines of action are: Improve water quality of the bay and surrounding bodies; Protection and restoration of key species and ecosystems for the health of the bay and nearby bodies; and Actions to adapt or mitigate climate change in the city.

We are a non-profit organization that seeks to serve young children and adults from vulnerable communities, offering them an accompaniment of quality to their families in the line of nutrition, use of free time, positive upbringing and training for work, supported by the volunteering and with a policy of kindness and good treatment, always giving the best to all our beneficiaries.

We contribute to reduce poverty and promote entrepreneurship development in Colombia, South America, by funding college studies of brilliant students that lack the financial resources to pay for their higher education. We do so under a sustainable financial model which allows us to eventually recover the invested funds and hence re-invest them in new students, generating a high social impact virtuous cycle in a short period of time. Our mission is to "rescue" students that, having successfully finished half of their college career, they have to abandon their university studies because they ran out of money to pay for their final semesters. We fund our beneficiaries until they become professionals and we coach them in entrepreneurship, so as to motivate them to incept their own businesses

Contribute to social transformation by attending to children and adolescents at psychosocial risk, orienting them and their families, how to prevent, face and overcome these conditions, according to the particularity of each individual.

The Foundation is aiming at impacting poverty, creating a social model and economic alternatives to the market economy and socialist model, with girls, boys and youths from highly vulnerable families in Colombia, through organizing them in communities, with a view to allow them to dream and realize their dreams.

Our mission is to build alternatives that can represent a possibility of humanity living sustainability, harmonizing human needs and the protection and restoration of endangered ecosystems.