Diageo spokeswoman Ximena Rengifo said to Caracol Radio that Sting, the British rock singer, will come to Colombia for the Buchanans Forever concert on May 6. He will perform with Chilean rock-pop singer Beto Cuevas in a charity event for poor children. (more…)
On 2010/03/01, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
On 2009/12/18, In Conflict, By Albeiro Rodas
Surely worst than the long Colombian conflict, it is the reality of its street children in the biggest cities. The Gamín (street boy in Colombian idioms), became almost a traditional character. Even if some people and groups complain of the lack of more definitive projects to end the problem of unprotected children in the Colombian streets, it is possible to find a good list of institutions, private and officials, doing something. The problem stands in the same conflict. Only the growing number of displaced farm families, fleeing from war-zones and taking refuse in the cities, is a definitive source of children on the streets with all its consequences. (more…)
On 2009/12/17, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Colombia Reports and now Colombia Passport want to join campaigns of good initiatives to support the less fortunate in Colombia this Christmas time, especially children and youth.
Here we find US citizen Mark Kaseman, who has been for four years around Medellín bringing food and clothes to hundreds of the city’s poorest. (more…)
On 2008/06/20, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Many concentrate in factors as the political conflict, but there are other elements to be worried with the Colombian children. Diarrhea can kill also people, more if those people live in extreme poverty like not having drinking water. According with a report of the Vice Ministry for Drinking Water in Colombia, about 1,300 children died due to the lack of this vital element. (more…)
On 2008/06/04, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Two million of Colombian children work, said a report of Bienestar Familiar, a government organization for the protection of the family and the Administrative National Statistic Department of Colombia (DANE). The report found also that 12% of children among 5 and 17 years old do not attend school due to poverty, while 18% of the Colombian children among 5 and 7 yeard old is working. From this 18% total, 50% works outside and the other half works at home about 15 hours per day. The numbers have alert the goverment that is planning already strategies to fight this social problem.
On 2008/01/16, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Canada’s International Co-operation Minister has concluded a visit to Colombia.
Cartagena de Indias (The Canadian Press) — Beverley Oda was in Cartagena on Friday to meet with key partners and visited projects funded by the federal government aimed at protecting children and internally displaced people, a government release stated.
Oda met with children and mothers at a nutritional recovery centre in a poor urban neighbourhood now home to rural residents who’ve been displaced. The federal government contributed to the World Food Programme project, which is providing relief to an estimated 200,000 beneficiaries this year. (more…)
On 2007/11/01, In Culture, By Albeiro Rodas
Bogotá (CP). In a report published by Profamilia, an official organization for the protection of family, children and women in Colombia, it is concluded that 7.8% of the Colombian children do not live with their parents. Most of the children were found at the care of the extensive family, according with the research of the Institution in a population of 3.211 families in 2005.
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