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Vision: In America Solidaria, we envision a continent where all children and adolescents have what they need to grow, learn, and fulfill their potential. We see it as our shared responsibility as citizens of this region to make this vision a reality by mobilizing a network of highly skilled fellows. Mission: Mission America Solidaria promotes regional development throughout the Americas, strengthening local initiatives through year-long service projects in nonprofit organizations working to alleviate youth poverty through a focus on education, health, and/or economic empowerment. Our projects create lasting change by influencing public opinion and policy and helping shape future professionals, increasing the standard of living and supporting growth in the region.

FUNDOWN CARIBE is a private non profit organization of common utility and private enterprise, whose main objective is to facilitate an integral attention to the population with Down Syndrome in the Colombian Caribbean Coast; offering support, harness and promoting the development of the capacities of these individuals, offering an attention that improves their quality of life, to forge their autonomy and inclusion in the family, school, work and society.-Workshops, Seminars and Conferences directed to parents and guardians of kids, youngsters and adults with Down Syndrome

Our mission is to ensure that our boys, girls and adolescents grow up in a familiar, loving and caring environment that allows them to exercise their rights. Our vision is to be a social development organization recognized for its impact in transforming adults into those responsible for effectively ensuring the rights of those in infancy and adolescence. Our values: Transparency: We adopt self-regulation principles in order to generate confidence about who we are and what we do Respect: We recognize one another as valuable, worthy and different human beings

Our hospital is a non-profit private institution that offers health services with emphasis on highly-complex patient care. It centers its economic effort on those patients who need service but cannot afford to pay for it. It performs its task with a comprehensive human focus, quality, and ethics with qualified and committed personnel. The Hospital also participates in the development of human talent and in research development in health areas to contribute to the generation of knowledge.

Fundacion Patronato Maria Auxiliadora is a private, nonprofit, generating partnerships with individuals and institutions to guide and provide comprehensive health care and rehabilitation for children and young people whose needs exceed the resources offered by the State and their families. According to the socio-economic situation of the family, their social security and medical diagnostics are serving the child at the clinic, hospital or rehabilitation center that is appropriate for the case. The Organization covers care costs directly to the agency or professional who provides the service and is in constant contact with the child's family from the time of application until recovery, working in solidarity with the support of the medical center where the child attends

We work with children who have their rights violated (mistreat, malnourishment, abuse, neglect, among others) and with children who are exposed to situations of high social and psychological risks. In Superarse, we are promoters and guarantors of the rights of the child. We are committed with the protection of children and adolescents, supported in a model of personalization of our services and sustainability, contributing to the construction of individual and familiar life projects.

Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe provides humanitarian aid worldwide. It supports people who have fallen victim of natural disasters, war and displacement and who are not able to cope on their own in the emergency situation they find themselves in. It is an effort to help people in great need - worldwide, regardless of their colour, religion and nationality.

Gruppo Aleimar is a non-profit voluntary organization that deals with children and families in need both in Italy and abroad, through the Distance Support, projects of development and awareness-raising and human development activities on the Italian territory. The main areas of our development projects are: 1. Education: taking charge of children in family (natural or adoptive), in foster homes and shelters, schooling and vocational training. 2. Health and hygiene awareness: support to clinics and / or hospitals, funding of surgical operations, seminars for young mothers. 3. Women promotion: start-up of agriculture and livestock, creation of production cooperatives, micro-credit financing. 4. Rural villages' development: water well, kindergarten, solar energy for light and water pumps. 5. Women' refuge and social housing for families in temporary need. The Aleimar Group is active today in 12 countries (Benin, Brazil, Colombia, D.R. Congo, Eritrea, India, Italy, Malawi, Palestine, Kenya, Lebanon, Zambia) with more than 50 projects and takes care directly of 600 children (what we call distance support) and, indirectly, of other 2,500 children that we follow within our projects. The Group comprises Aleimar for overseas project; Tuendelee for Italian projects and Prema, a cooperative for mentally disabled youth. The Group hires five people and relays on the voluntary service of 140 people. Its annual turnover is abt.1,2 million euro and overhead cost is less than 10%. Its balance sheet is checked and approved by internal auditors. We have been granted a seal of quality "Donare con fiducia" by the Istituto Italiano Donazione. Its web sites are: www.aleimar.it and www.tuendelee.net. In 30 years of activity the Group has helped more than 10.000 children/families, has built more than 100 foster homes, orphanages, schools and water wells.

RIJ is an independent non-profit organization that funds projects for people displaced by conflict around the world. RIJ supports projects that provide opportunities for people to lead an independent normal life while staying near to home and their loved ones; projects that enable people to give back to the community and make valuable contributions to the local economy as well as rebuilding their own future.

Mission To win children away from a life of war and delinquency, with love, through education and the holistic development of their academic, personal, and social abilities, empowering them to construct and achieve their own life projects. Vision That the children of Ciudad Bolivar will be capable of breaking their cycle of poverty and become the kind of persons that they desire to be. Values - Love and respect for oneself and for others - Always put oneself in the place of the other - Pursue excellence - Seek justice About Pintando Caminos Who We Are Pintando Caminos Asociacion para Recrear el Futuro (Pintando Caminos Association to Recreate the Future) is a registered non-profit that, for more than 12 years, has provided spaces and opportunities to improve the lives of boys and girls who live in the oppressed and impoverished neighborhood of Potosi, in Ciudad Bolivar (Bogota, Colombia). We desire to break the cycle of poverty in Colombia ad to provide the children and young adults with all the necessary tools for them to succeed in life in a dignified way, and to help the youth become complete and integrated persons, with values that make it possible for us to build a better country in the future.

To offer a high-quality integral and personalized treatment to cleft and lip palate children and their families in their physical, psychic and social dimensions. -Fisulab is a non-profit foundation that originated from a group of very much experienced health professionals who designed an integral attention and care guide whose main objective is the total rehabilitation of cleft palate children, through a permanent and individualized tracing from birth to the end of their treatment culmination, reamining free of sequela and limiting stigmas. -Provide permanent guidance and support to their parents, so that, being concious of their childrens condition, appraise them and become their rehabilitation fundamental motor. -Support low-income families through sponsorsprogram. -Guarantee Fisulabs users an efficient functioning through modernization of our facilities, the acquisition of medical diagnose equipments and permanent actualization of the scientific team who carries out the investigation labor in our rehabilitation center.

Contribute to the improvement of the quality and living conditions of families in extreme poverty in the municipality of Ayapel, Cordoba, working mainly with mothers, children and adolescents in the development of programs and projects with emphasis on education, health and environment To foster and expand their development opportunities and life chances with well-being, creativity and productivity, respecting their goals and customs and taking advantage of resources and knowledge.