This Saturday, nutrition professionals voluntarily conducted a Nutritional Health Brigade at the Barranquilla headquarters of the Foundation. The brigade aimed to develop a nutritional diagnosis to the population of children and adolescents beneficiaries, perform nutritional assessments to each one and activities to promote healthy lifestyle habits.
On Saturday, November 12, the young people of the Higher Education group of the Lipaya Headquarters enjoyed a special day at Ranch Texas, this time not as volunteers, but as the fundamental members that they are. They shared their experiences as beneficiaries of the Foundation, and experiences during their studies. These activities are important to strengthen the friendship, fellowship, sense of belonging of the children, and also to highlight their valuable work as volunteers.
The entire work team of the Foundation gathered at an integration dinner to celebrate the achievements based on the commitment and contributions of this 2022. It is important to highlight the role of each one of us, as we make everything possible.
This Thursday at the Lipaya Headquarters, the Colegiatura Colombiana together with the Ombudsman’s Office conducted an activity with young people on bullying and cyberbullying, providing children with strategies to maintain a healthy coexistence and interpersonal relationships, as well as emotional intelligence and empathy.
This Saturday, Business Administration students from the Universidad Libre de Barranquilla, developed a social service with the beneficiaries of the Lipaya Headquarters, through activities focused on topics such as entrepreneurship, savings, time management, leadership, optimization of resources, business creation. Thanks to these activities, the children can learn about these topics that will be useful to sow in them the entrepreneurial spirit.
This Saturday at the Lipaya Headquarters, we were visited by young people from the Attitude for Life Foundation from the Evaristo Sourdis neighborhood, who learned about the different projects of our Foundation, learned about planting techniques, shared their experiences with the children and played a soccer tournament on the community’s soccer field. These activities promote sports, healthy recreation, teamwork and strengthen interpersonal relationships.
This Saturday the group of Environmental Guardians carried out a Local Environmental Fair, where they explained to the visitors the different activities that are developed in the Foundation, such as planting seeds, making a portable home garden, a tour of the Garden-Classroom Workshop, exhibition of recyclable materials and environmental awareness
The Environmental Guardians, our beneficiaries between 12 and 14 years old, held a workshop this Saturday at the Lipaya Headquarters to strengthen values such as patience, perseverance, perseverance and discipline through handicrafts. It is also an excellent exercise to promote concentration and creativity.
This Saturday, the beneficiaries of the Barranquilla Branch enjoyed an educational outing to the Ranch Texas Equestrian Theme Park. The children and adolescents had a different, pleasant and fun day where they could play, share with friends, enjoy the green areas and have contact with animals such as horses, ponies, fish and more. In this way, we promote healthy recreation and the strengthening of social skills.
In our Barranquilla location we have achieved a link with the Learning Service (SENA), aiming to dictate the Hygiene & Food Handling in-person course within the installations of our foundation. This course is aimed to reach the community of the Lipaya neighbourhood (Barrio Lipaya), it is actually a very relevant topic for the neighbourhood needs, due to the fact that many mothers have food businesses or work in the food industry. Being trained and certified will increase their chances of getting a job, improve their income and enrich their knowledge.