There may be no better place in the world to run a social enterprise with a 10-year Impact Plan than Medellín, Colombia.

The communities we serve are vibrant with love and social connections but scarce on economic resources. Parents struggle to put food on the table and often don’t have resources to buy even the most basic school supplies for their children. Families are important but often there’s no father in the home or involved in the children’s lives. All of this  perpetuates cycles of gender inequality, premature pregnancy, and poverty.

One way or another, every participant in our programs has suffered some kind of trauma: abandonment, sexual violence, exile from their social structure, etc. According to the World Bank’s Gini Index, Colombia ranks #7 in the world for the greatest income disparity, making it nearly impossible for them to pull themselves up the ladder to economic stability. Providing higher education to their children seems unsurmountable. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.