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To fully assist children, from poor backgrounds, who are sick with cancer.

We educate in order to prevent crime and contribute to the transformation and coexistence in high social risk areas to endeavor a sustainable peace.

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.

We are a foundation 501 c (3)that seeks to improve the quality of life of animals in the condition of the street, through the implementation of comprehensive programs of population control, nutrition, adoption and social responsibility -Vaccination and sterilization campaigns with medical help to those in most critical conditions.Offer solutions that help to combat the problem of population and mistreatment of animals, treating them as a problem of public health and coexistence, promoting the adoption of animals rescued and recovered from abandonment, systematically carrying out mass sterilization campaigns in dogs, such as the only method statistically proven, being at the same time efficient, ethical and free of cruelty, to face the high street population.

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.

Fundacion CIMA (as we are better known) is a non governmental / non profit organisation created in 2002 to disseminate updated information to educate and inform the Mexican people on: early detection, the risk factors and the access to timely treatment in regards to breast cancer. As well to build a community to offer and strengthen the emotional support of patients and their families and care givers.

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.

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.

Laboratorio de Conservacion Colombia foundation leads and supports biodiversity conservation actions using and generating high quality scientific information, working together with communities, companies and the public sector with the goal of preserving the country's biological heritage and promoting its sustainable development.

Restaurando las familias Foundation is a non-profit institution that works with other actors (public or private) to contribute to the integral development of children, youth and the family in general, based on the promotion, recognition and defense of their rights. In this way, it is sought that they can achieve an optimal bio-psychosocial spiritual development, which allows them to improve their quality of life.

CIFOR advances human well-being, equity and environmental integrity by conducting innovative research, developing partners' capacity and actively engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders to inform policies and practices that affect forests and people.

Help Colombia's mission is to feed, shelter, and educate Colombia's most vulnerable communities. We believe that by first helping to ensure their most basic needs are met, we can give them the opportunity to focus on both personal and economic growth. This in turn will help residents to actively participate in building stronger, more self-sufficient communities.