My Nonprofit Reviews

In 2012, when I was 80 years old, I was hospitalized with an unknown illness, and very weak. I almost didn't make it. However, after 12 days, I left the hospital and came across news on the radio from Colombia, South America, that children from 5-10 years old were dying because of hunger in Choco, Colombia. Choco is next to Panama, in the Northwest area of Colombia. After hearing the news, a new mission opened up for me and the need to keep on living, to do something about it. My daughter Claudia who has a nonprofit organization to advocate for children in Colombia was looking for a new project, so we started talking about how to help the children in the Country where we lived for many years. The Sowing Seeds for the Future (SS4F) in Stillwater, MN started making contacts and found out that 15,000 children have chronic malnutrition in this department of Colombia. The SS4F contacted the Fundacion Marajuera, where a young woman: Johanna helps the children who are living in extreme poverty. Working with Johanna, the SS4F applied for a grant to start a bakery to teach children baking skills, and feed them. Also, soccer teams were organized to get children involved in sports to keep them away from the dangers of the street, such as drugs, violence and crime. Currently, one of the volunteers, is doing a barefoot journey over the Pacific Crest Trail, to create awareness about the extreme poverty of the children in Choco, where many of them go barefoot, due to lack of funds to buy shoes. The SS4F knows that there is much to do in Choco, and these are only seeds that they are planting to teach the kids to come out of the helplessness of poverty and be empowered to have a fruitful future. The SS4F is a perfect example of how we can all do something to help our brothers and sisters who need some impulse to get ahead.