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Environmental guardians looking after the planet

This week we celebrated International Environment Day with a lovely competition where children made drawings and crafts from recyclable material, showing the transformational process of plastic, cardboard and other materials.
The most creative works were awarded with an environmental art kit consisting of a primer in biodegradable material which contained mandalas and messages inviting them to care for the environment, ecological pens so that they continue to develop their creative skills and in turn continue to contribute to the care of nature.
Love nature, study it and be amazed by it every time you take care of it, because it will surprise you!

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Zumba with Katy

Zumba with Katy was an initiative of the Psychosocial Intervention Program to promote physical activity and the integration of families through social networks. It consisted of following the instructor’s steps, uploading a video or photo showing active participation from the family and then to tag the foundation.

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For a quarantine without hunger

The Covid-19 crisis has challenged us as humanity and we are called to social awareness and teamwork.

An example of this social leadership is the support of the Realianz company, the Amor Por Locombia initiative and donations from a group of people and families from the Barranquilla community who have joined this campaign.

Together we have been able to bring food to low-income families, who during this pandemic have been exposed not only to contagion and hunger but also to the violation of the rights of children and young people to education because they do not have digital resources for home classes.

Thank you for bringing a message of hope to the most vulnerable families through these foods.

Together we will be able to overcome any challenge! Join our campaign and create a change in our society.

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Socio-emotional support in times of quarantine

Throughout quarantine, we have maintained communication with our children’s families. Through phone calls and social networks we provide support and guidance on the following:

How to quarantine together with children and adolescents at home, school activities from home, how to organise time, involve children in household activities and thus maintain a healthy coexistence for all family members.

In addition, we have communicated self-care measures, hospital care routes, restrictive measures and benefits of social programs offered by the government through the different municipalities.

If we maintain positive emotions we will create a healthy coexistence for everyone!

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In the midst of the pandemic, our graduate Miguel gains his Masters

Our graduate from the Higher Education Program, Miguel Ortega, graduated virtually from his master’s studies, thanks to the support of FMCCV and the postgraduate scholarship he won at the University.
Miguel was born and raised in the Lipaya neighbourhood and from a very young age he entered as a beneficiary of the Mi Ciudad Con Vida Foundation. In 2012 with the help of the Foundation’s Higher Education program, he went to Santa Marta to pursue his professional studies in Film and Audiovisuals where he completed his entire degree with a scholarship from the University and graduated in 2017 with Summa Cum Laude recognition and postgraduate scholarship.
Today Miguel is a Master in Audiovisual Scriptures and heads the communications area of our Foundation as a volunteer.
At FMCCV we are convinced that with a little help we can transform the lives of children and young people like Miguel.

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We begin the first stage of delivery of markets due to the emergency of COVID-19

Thanks to the donation of the organisation “Amor X Locombia” we brought 50 markets to our beneficiaries in the Lipaya neighbourhood, one of the many communities seriously affected by the pandemic.

In Colombia, the mandatory preventive quarantine started more than a month ago and the official positive cases of COVID-19 today number more than 10,000. Barranquilla and Soledad, places where the Mi Ciudad Con Vida Foundation has its two headquarters, are among the three municipalities with the most confirmed cases in this region of the country.

But it is not only the virus that worries these communities because in neighbourhoods like Lipaya, where a large part of the families survive from the day-to-day economy and informal work, due to the lack of savings and effective state aid that cover their basic minimum needs, quarantine has become a physically and psychosocially debilitating situation.

With different activities at the Mi Ciudad Con Vida Foundation, we maintain psychosocial support for our children and adolescents and their families in the midst of the Covid-19 quarantine. One of these activities has been managing, through individuals and private entities, the donation of markets with products from the basic basket for our children.

One of the first to shake hands, has been the organization “Amor X Locombia” who a week ago contributed 60 lunches for our children in Soledad. And today they donated 50 markets to us, which were delivered from house to house to the same number of families in the Lipaya neighbourhood.

Our objective through these markets is to be able to cover our 210 children and their families in Barranquilla and Soledad, for this we trust in the solidarity of entities such as “Amor X Locombia” and individuals who join this initiative to help those who are most affected by this quarantine.

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Fundación Mi Ciudad Con Vida in alliance with Fundación Amor Por Locombia delivers lunches en quarantine

In Colombia, compulsory quarantine has been in place for more than a month and many low-income families who live on a daily basis are in an extremely vulnerable situation.
Union creates strength!!!
In this context, the Mi Ciudad Con Vida Foundation and the Amor Por Locombia Foundation, managed to deliver 60 lunches to our children in the Nuevo Horizonte neighbourhood in Soledad, Atlántico. These lunches, which were donated by our allied foundation, were delivered house to house by our officials to avoid crowds and in compliance with the recommended hygienic measures.
This is a clear example of how two organisations manage to work hand in hand and support each other to bring food to the communities most affected by this pandemic.
“We are concerned about the levels of vulnerability in which the children of these communities are, we want to invite everyone to join this cause, to bring food to the rest of the children and their families located in marginal neighbourhoods such as Lipaya in Barranquilla and Nuevo Horizon in Solitude ”
Nury Buendía, Director FMCCV

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The School Support program does not stop in quarantine

The Covid-19 pandemic does not stop the desire to learn. Through WhatsApp, phone calls and home deliveries, the boys and girls of the School Support Program in the Nuevo Horizonte neighbourhood of Soledad continue with the scheduled academic activities. Without the quarantine impeding the achievement of their academic goals, these little ones show us that perseverance and dedication are the key to overcoming any adversity. In addition, at the Foundation we continue to provide psychosocial support to our children’s families. It is difficult because not all of our beneficiaries have an internet connection or telephone number, however we are looking for ways to accompany them at this time.