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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.

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.

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.

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.

Chicas en Tecnologia (CET) is a non-profit organization that has sought to close the technological gender gap since 2015, through free and accessible programs and initiatives that encourage, motivate, train, and support the new generation of female leaders in technology.

Fundacion Corazonistas is the tool of the Institute of Brothers of the Sacred Heart in the Province of Spain for the promotion and participation of lay Corazonistas through social commitment. In 2021, Fundacion Corazonistas is the reference space for lay Corazonistas in educational works in Spain to get socially involved in building a more just world. Thus, it contributes to the development of committed personal and community vocations in Spain and to the development of projects of heart solidarity with impoverished people and peoples throughout the world.

The Pan and Panela Foundation Non-profit entity aimed at contributing to the needs of food, clothing and comprehensive care in vulnerable communities in the city of Barranquilla and/or the department of Atlantico. Likewise, it seeks to stimulate cultural and recreational activities that aim to improve the quality of life of people who are in a condition of poverty and/or extreme poverty through the creation of projects, programs and alliances with public and private entities.

Transform the future of Venezuelan children and youth at risk, nurturing and educating them as integral, ethical and thoughtful leaders so that they are the ones who transform their community and their own family.

Created in 2002, Vision du Monde is a French humanitarian organization, belonging to World Vision international partnership, which aims at helping the most vulnerable children. Thanks to its Christian DNA and driven by stewardship and human centred values, our NGO is dedicated to tackle the causes of poverty and injustice. We help the most vulnerable children to experience fullness of life, by growing, learning and achieving their dreams in a caring and secured environment. Vision du Monde works with the world's most vulnerable people in the most remote or unstable areas of the world. It serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. Our staff of 25+ deals mainly with global relief, development and advocacy. We pursue this mission through integrated, holistic commitment, working closely with children, families, communities, local authorities. We make sure that each one of them are interviewed and committed from design to fulfilment in our development programmes. Empowered step by step during the ten to fifteen years of a programme, we empower them to set their own goals, settle autonomy and pass on skills and knowledge in a sustainable and community-based outlook. Vision du Monde runs 17 development programmes in 12 countries across 4 continents. It benefits from the 70 years of experience of World Vision, first child sponsorship NGO and first Clean water humanitarian provider in the world, operating in 99 countries with offices in 85 of them. Our mission encompasses, in a global and sustainable development approach, 6 key sectors across clean water, sanitation and hygiene; food security; health; education; child protection and economic development to enable families transform relationships, build resilience and secure source of revenues. World Vision recently launched a new global strategy called Our Promise 2030, contributing to reach Sustainable Development Goals. Focusing energy and resources on increasingly fragile contexts and hard-to-reach areas, the organization strengthens his advocacy against violence, exploitation and human rights violations. Vision du Monde is dedicated more than ever to reach the most vulnerable children in the world, in difficult areas, relying on the expertise and cultural understanding of local teams, 97 % of them originating from the country. Alliances with other NGOs such as Red cross, Cares, Coordination sud or public organization such as EU or World food programme or International Labour Organization, make our action more efficient.