Fundación Católica para la Protección del menor

Catholic Foundation for the Protection of Minors

June 2009
Restrepo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
 Welcome to our Foundation!

By contributing resources, commitment, and prayer, it is

possible to work and support our children to fulfill the needs
they face, which prevent the children to enjoy life at its most,
with opportunities for development and growth.
ese shortcomings are reflected in many cases such as love,
care, food security, recreation and leisure, vaccination, dental
and visual health, child rights, among others.
 Where are we located?
Located in the town of
Restrepo, Valle del Cauca,
Colombia, a beautiful and
fertile agricultural land,
1400 meters above sea level
and 57 kilometers from
Cali, the capital of the
department of Valle del
Cauca, the Catholic
Foundation for the
Protection of Minors
(FUNCAPROMER) thrusts
people to become aware
and interested in the
needs of others. We seek to
influence the hearts and
minds of people about
those situations that
deserve our
attention, interest and
participation.
 at d o In the Foundation, we

Wh encourage people to
become interested in the
needs of others. We seek
to influence the hearts
and minds of people
about the situation that

d o ? deserves our attention,

we interest, and
participation.

At the Foundation we
respect all believes, we do
not proselytize or engage
in any kind of religious
pressure.
Our programs and the local church and
services are available to Christian traditions of
truly poor children restrepeños. Many
irrespective of their members of the parish

ethnicity, gender or community work

religion. together with the
Foundation for the most
As a Catholic needed, mainly in social
organization, we keep a assistance activities.
special relationship with We look forward into
 opportunities to share challenges of poverty and
with the parish mainly in social injustice that many
the exchange of children in Restrepo have
experiences, to face.
collaboration, and
generation of funds, By contributing resources
among other things. (in cash or in kind),
commitment and
prayer, it is possible to
Sponsorhsip Program work together and support
our children to fulfill the
basic needs they face,
What is it? which prevent them to
enjoy life at its most, with
opportunities for
By means of the development and growth.
sponsoship we expect
sponsors and children to ese shortcomings are
establish an anonymous reflected in many
relatioship when people examples: love, care, food
is interested in the security, recreation &
needs of others, and leisure, vaccination,
understands in his/her dental and visual health,
heart and mind, the training workshops on
child rights, among members have already
others. contributed
more than ten thousand
us, not only the girl or hours of their valued
boy who is sponsored is time.
benefited, but also those
who are not, but live in We hope, over time, to
our same community and fulfill other present and
undoubtely will join us in future development
the future. opportunities for the
children.
e sponsorship aims to
empower children, erefore, we praise you
families, and community to joins us in this
alike, to do what is endeavour.
required to stop reliance
on outside assistance.

In the last five years, our

sponsors have supported
over 200 children with
more than two hundred
thousand meals. Many
How does the sponsorship work?
rough the sponsorship she/he can sponsor a
program a person has the child of the Foundation,
opportunity to know the please tell him/her to
realities and experiences contact us at any time at
of a child by providing a the following email:
voluntary and symbolic funcapromer.restrepo@g
contribution. mail.com.
All donations go to a ose who wish to
common fund, which is participate in the
invested in the needs of Sponsorship Program
the children. is fund is can copy, fill out, and
managed and accounted send the following form
by means of open and to the above mail box or
transparent to our street address:
administrative processes. Funcapromer
If a friend of yours or Carrera 9 no. 12-03
your neighbor would like Restrepo,
to receive more Valle del Cauca,
information on how COLOMBIA
Application for Sponsorship
Name: * __________________________________________________
Occupation or profession:_____________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________________
I would like to contribute to the objectives of the Catholic Foundation
for the Protection of Minors.
My contribution will be: *
☐Monthly ☐Bimonthly ☐Quarterly ☐Semiannually ☐Annual
☐Only on special occasions, eg. Children's Day, Christmas, etc.
My contribution will be in: *
☐Money ☐Food ☐Other
e value of my contribution is: ____________________
If you want to deposit your contributions in money, you can do so in our
savings account number 115-53354-9 Banco Davivienda / Bancafé in Colombia.
Please do not forget to inform us by email : funcapromer.restrepo@gmail.com
Do you wish to sponsor a child?
☐Yes ☐No
Would you like to receive information about your sponsored child?
☐Yes ☐No
I declare that I know and share the objectives of the Catholic
Foundation for the Protection of Minors.

Gracias!
We are also attending
workshops in
handicras, where we
learn to make necklaces
and wrist bracelets
among other things. My
name is Leidy and I am
taking my lunch every
day at the children's
restaurant of the Catholic
Foundation for the
Protection of Minors
and, despite my young
age, 9 years, me and my
brohers attend the keep my ID and meals
handicra workshops on record cards for my
Saturday aernoons. lunches which I have to
In this picture you can show every day to enter
see the little bag of felt the dining room of the
decorated with colored Foundation. e ID card
beads that I made all by is very important, it is
myself in one aernoon like cash, because the
is bag I'm using to Lenis Photography
Studio, UNIVET-- the Many other stores will
veterinarian center , and also make discounts in
the Internet Cafe give us days to come.
great discounts (and
sometimes even free, (I
hope ...) when we need to
take a photo
or when we take our pets
to the vet when they get
sick or when we want to
send an email to a friend
who lives around the
corner or elsewhere in
the world, who knows?
Restrepo has
17.255
inhabitants and we, the
children and juveniles,
account for 30% of
the population. Of this population,
more than 5% are at
great risk of social
vulnerability.

We have taken

200.000
meals in the last 6
years.

10.000
hours of work have
been donated by our
volunteers.
Birthday parties
Uff ...! At last came the long awaited day: the celebration of our
birthdays. We arrived with the dream of spending a pleasant moment with
amigos of the Foundation and with the expectation that Jorge, would finally
bring the so much publicized and promised birthday cake. ... And what a
huge cake he brought! so delicious to repeat.
We watched a beautiful film for children that Nelson´s dad gave us for
this day: thank you Nelson´s Father! Another mom sent in cookies that we
share with the volunteer ladies who look aer us. Another lady offered us a
cold and refreshing drink.
As always we answered interesting and compelling questions about the
film we have just watched. en we went out to take group photographs,
which we later posted on our website (www.funcapromer.org). Don’t
forget to drop by!
April 25th
Children’s
Day

Every child
enjoyed it
a lot!
Appreciation of our children
Every child in our Foundation treasures the generous
donations of sponsors. Our gratitude is immense for all the
support received.