Give at-risk Colombian children a safe home

Meaningful volunteering, one goal together:

Little by little, transforming the way our children see the world!

We would like to share with you inspiring examples of people making the world a better place. This year, we had many helping hands and proactive teams in the homes of our programs, volunteers sent by corporate companies that care. People committed to the cause of children, people understanding the urgent need to return benefits received to favor less advantaged communities, millennials wanting to transform the perception of poverty and exclusion, and wanting to close the gaps of inequality and lack of opportunity.

Despite the difficult situation concerning the youth of our country, the violence children and adolescents experience on the streets, in their own homes and even via the internet, we believe that together we can change this generation’s way of thinking and start creating a friendlier and more equal environment for them. According to ICBF, Colombian Family Welfare Institute figures, during this year, 7106 cases of child abuse have been reported.

We are thankful for every single helping hand, because it feels great to experience the support of so many people, all of whom are united in our mission to protect the dreams of these children and prevent them from being destroyed by anything or anyone.

These are the people we had:  

UPS Volunteers

Forty-five UPS employees, an international Courier service, passionate about making the world a better place, under their social responsibility slogan "United As One Making a Difference "donated materials and painted the “Nuevo Amanecer” house with their own hands.

Abbvie Volunteers

During their "Week of Possibilities”, we were honored to receive 50 employees from Abbvie, a biopharmaceutical company with focus on research, in our “Nuevo Amanecer” program. They made many beautiful changes to the house: they built tables, chairs, and a greenhouse; they planted a garden, and taught the children about pharmaceutical chemistry.

Rotterdam School of Management

A group of students from RSM visited Colombia for a consulting project, and wanted to support Colombia’s most vulnerable children. They spent an afternoon playing with our children and brought them balls and school supplies.

Chiropractic Worldwide Missions

A group of 28 chiropractors from all over the world came to our programs to train the children and teach them about the importance of taking care of their spines and nervous systems as an important part of wellbeing.

All of these teamwork is very encouraging, it inspires us to keep our hard work considering that many children in Colombia still experience  extreme poverty, child marriage, prostitution, internal displacement,  drugs consumption and many other challenges. The figures of child abuse are every day worst and we have the missionary commitment to protect these children and reestablish their fundamentals rights during  their stay at our programs or while they can return safely to their families.

Now, that you have been an important part of this Globalgiving challenge, you can continue helping with confidence an organization equipped with the best tools for doing it right and with love.

So, if you're thinking on making your contribution for the end of the year, this #GivingTuesday, November 28th, GlobalGiving projects will receive a proportional match on donations for 24 hours  (00:00:01 - 23:59:59 EST) This is in fact a great chance to increase your efforts! https://www.givingtuesday.org/ 

Thanks again for your ongoing support,

Patricia González

Community Relations Manager

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or ideas at funiandes@yahoo.com 

Last time we seeked for your help, asking for collaboration in our effort gathering  funds for acquiring the bus we need to fulfill our kids transport demands by inviting you to participate in the Globalgiving Bonus Day. This time we want to let you know our marvelous results. Thanks to your efforts dear donors, and the GG matching funds, we could gather USD$5.715 on July 12, plus a USD$3.000 donation from a kind donor specially touched by this cause. We haven't reached yet our goal, but soon we will. It is very joyful to see how with all of your support and networking it is possible to transform these vulnerable children's living conditions into better ones and make the world a safer place for nurturing our kids.

Now the good news is that Fundacion Ninos de los Andes' project "Give at-risk Colombian Children a Safe Home" has been selected as GlobalGiving's Project of the Month for August 2017! The Project of the Month Club is a program Globalgiving set up to pool hundreds of individual’s monthly recurring donations together, to make a monthly donation to one different earth-changing idea. Our work has been selected as this month's high-impact project that will benefit from the Club's donations! GG estimate that this month the Club will raise approximately $11,000 for our project. To them our gratitude in advance! Maybe with this amount we can be closer to the total bus price.

We feel ourselves high honored with this nomination and really wanted to share this big news with you, as invaluable partners of our work. Your big commitment with Fundación Niños de los Andes is so remarkable and inspirational to us!

We also want to thank Globalgiving for giving us the tips, tools and training to improve the effectiveness of our work, making easier our daily challenge changing the lives of many street children in Colombia.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or ideas at funiandes@yahoo.com

Best wishes,

Patricia González L.