The projects below received the greatest number of votes from our Massy employees in this region and will therefore proceed to the final stage for disbursing the grants. During this stage further criteria will be reviewed to assure regulatory adherence.
The positive difference that this project will have will be the reduction of violence, fewer children and young people consuming psychoactive drugs, less crime in the sector and its surroundings, reduction of child pregnancies, support for mothers head of household looking for businesses, and less school dropout.
We seek to empower each person to carry out an impressive life project starting work from an early age, a period in which identity, self-knowledge and training is necessary to prevent addictions, pregnancies, and integration into gangs. We seek, hand in hand with the inhabitants of Cazucá, the improvement of their living conditions based on self-knowledge, the lifting of self-image and self-esteem, the acceptance of their gifts and talents and of course, their relationship with God. Before they manage to live in better physical and economic conditions, they begin to understand their fulfillment and happiness from who they are having or not material things.
In Bogotá we have a high rate of young people and children involved in the consumption of psychoactive substances, early pregnancies, poverty, and a high percentage of unemployment. There are very few people who access this type of prevention, since this project seeks to guide all these children and young people through culture, art and education occupying their free spaces in order to reduce risks and encourage them to seek better ways and knowledge of their strengths.
We will support one of our employees from each city (Bogotá, Medellín and Cali) in a project to repair their home and to deliver an appliance to solve a need
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“Being able to support the needs of our collaborators, in the repair of their homes, transforming lives and echoing one of our purposes. Additionally, we understand that our employees come first, and we prefer that money benefit their needs rather than external ones.”
This project transforms the lives of children and their families who belong to vulnerable populations, it is a way to be able to smile, it contributes to generating security, confidence, self-esteem and to mitigate bullying in children with this condition.
They are a non-profit organization, with 25 years of experience in Colombia. They direct efforts to transform the lives of people, especially children from vulnerable populations, with the condition of Cleft Lip and Palate, susceptible to correction through reconstructive plastic surgery and multidisciplinary treatment, in order to influence their social and family integration. They strengthen the capacities of the health system, promote research and innovation and influence the generation of public policies through a comprehensive model of high quality with a multidisciplinary team of collaborators, volunteers and strategic allies.
“Seeing the facial transformation in a child or a baby, seeing them smile after the operation generates satisfaction and impacts their environment and their future quality of life.”
Finish equipping the care units and thus increase medical care for children with limited economic resources and suffering from heart deficiencies.
Santiago Corazón has contributed to the advancement of Pediatric Cardiology in Colombia, helping in the specialized training of doctors, nurses, and human resources at the service of children and has facilitated the stay of hundreds of children in the city during their treatment. Achievements turned into quality of life and joy for all families. We dream of healthy children having been treated on time. Today children with heart disease who undergo surgery have a 93% success rate in such interventions. That is why we would like to give the children of Colombia with heart disease an opportunity to live, to live well and, to achieve this, we are willing to seek the necessary resources so that they are cared for.
“It is a foundation that helps with donations and with the sale of products that sponsor children of limited economic resources to be treated for their medical heart problems, my admiration was greater, taking into account the high medical costs that can be incurred by a family with limited economic resources and with a child with this type of medical problems.”
People with Down syndrome and cognitive disabilities have reading comprehension difficulties. The use of methodologies that are not very accessible within the educational system becomes an additional barrier to access quality education.
The project will qualify 60 leading teachers in the region to implement the easy reading methodology, which will bring educational content closer to the students, 1513 students currently enrolled in the city.
Hand in hand with expert professionals, we accompany families from the birth of their sons and daughters with Down syndrome by offering a family support network. We share updated information and knowledge that allow an approach to the subject of disability and inclusion under a rights approach. Our social interventions break down myths and stereotypes about people with disabilities, removing barriers to their development and community participation
“My beautiful son Gabriel Arevalo Lima, he is 6 years old, he is a child with Down Syndrome, thanks to the Foundation we have widely known his work, because they have supported us in the process of supporting children with this condition; in addition to holding workshops, talks and accompaniment on particular topics.”
Give tools that allow boys and girls to build a life project and remain in the field, avoid school dropout, contribute to quality education.
The children benefiting from the programs who, due to their family’s geographic location or displacement situation, require a place to live in order to continue their education, are housed in homes owned by Formemos. The children’s home has 100 beds distributed in dormitories made up of beneficiaries according to their ages. The household routines are directed by 8 counselors who develop their planning in the strengthening of values, free time management workshops, conflict resolution, leadership, study guidelines, hygiene guidelines and teamwork. Graduated students receive not only the title of Agricultural Technician Bachelors but also the Ecological Farm Technician awarded by SENA.
“I know that education changes the future of a child and a family. It is wonderful to hear the testimonies of the students where this Foundation has been essential to achieve dreams, forget situations that have marked their lives and the comprehensive education they receive makes them brave and strong men and women with the development of skills and competencies to work.”
