Dr. Angélica Padilla Higgins, coordinator of internal medicine at the Porto Azul Clinic in Barranquilla, held a FACEBOOK LIVE session with the beneficiary families of the Mi Ciudad Con Vida Foundation. They learned about the benefits of vaccination for Covid-19 , clearing up doubts, concerns and myths related to this in the framework of the massive vaccination program that is being carried out worldwide, in order to achieve herd immunity in Colombia.

This week, the clinical psychologist Liliana Vásquez shared information on a very interesting topic with all the families of the Foundation, related to the management of emotions in childhood.
Recommendations were made to parents on how to teach children to identify their emotions.

With a welcome video we received all the families in our first activity of the year through Facebook, reminding them that we must keep hope and optimism alive.
We also took advantage of this space, to honour all mothers with a beautiful poem and a serenade. It was a wonderful space for entertainment and celebration.

On April 23, 100 food baskets were delivered to the Foundation’s beneficiary families. Through this support we are able to help mitigate the food crisis that they are experiencing due to the pandemic.

A virtual meeting was held with leaders of the community action board of Barranquilla (Lipaya) and Soledad (Nuevo Horizonte) to present progress of the psychosocial intervention booklet. They made their contributions based their experience and work in the community .
During the meeting, valuable contributions were made that will be taken into account in the psychosocial booklet, which will be a training instrument for future social leaders who wish to generate impact in the community.

This year our customary Christmas campaign and end of the year closing was different due to the health situation that the whole world is going through, we share with you through this audiovisual piece how this important activity was developed this year.

With a bakery workshop, the start-up of the production units of the FMCCV continues. The seed, as the bakery is called, is an association of female heads of households from the Lipaya neighbourhood, who with the project have found another tool to support their families and mitigate the ravages of the covid. The energies and dedication of this group of women has been present during the development of the workshops. Long live entrepreneurship.

Through the Cultivarte Project, which has been developing in the community of Lipaya and Soledad, the dream of producing a small amount of vegetables at home is being brought to reality in order to reduce the cost of the family food, increase the consumption of healthy foods and unite families in this purpose. Creating the culture of green production in the gardens and terraces of the beneficiary families has been a purpose that we aspire to be perpetuated over time for the direct benefits to our families.