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Echeverri Houweling Foundation
Hillside neighbourhood of Medellín with brick houses and mountains in the distance

Echeverri Houweling Foundation

Together, we invest in children today for a better tomorrow.

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Our Purpose

A better future for children.

We help create a better future for children through education, opportunity and community. Giving children the right support today can change everything about tomorrow.

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    Education

    Learning, materials and space to grow.

  • 02

    Opportunity

    A real chance, not a one-time gift.

  • 03

    Community

    Local people who know the children by name.

Children of Medellín Foundation: an after-school classroom session with children reading and drawing
Children of Medellín Foundation: the neighbourhood sports court with the mountains behind it

Medellín · Colombia

Investing in children today.

After-school programme

Children of Medellín Foundation: the painted music mural inside the community building
Children of Medellín Foundation: children playing football on the neighbourhood court
Photo credit: Photos: Children of Medellín Foundation

Our Experiences

We go, we meet, we support.

Every foundation we support is chosen because it fits our purpose: giving children opportunities for a better future. These are the places and the people behind our giving.

Our family handing over the COP 10,000,000 cheque to the Children of Medellín team on the neighbourhood sports court

Medellín, Colombia · 2026

Children of Medellín

We travelled to Medellín to meet the people behind the foundation. We spent the day in the neighbourhood, sat with the team and listened to how they support children every week.

We met the children. We saw the classrooms, the drawings on the walls, the football court where the afternoons end.

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We contributed

€2,700

≈ COP 10,000,000

Project supported

Education and after-school programme for children in the neighbourhood

Children reached

120

Standing on the sports court listening to the foundation's director

Every safe court is a classroom for confidence.

The foundation's wooden bookshelf filled with children's books
Watching a football match on the sand pitch above the hillside neighbourhood
The view over Medellín from the hillside where the foundation works
Walking through the neighbourhood streets with a member of the foundation team
Children around colourful tables during an after-school session in the foundation's classroom
A painted music mural on the wall of the foundation's building, overlooking the sports court
Children in bibs playing sports on the neighbourhood court with the mountains behind
Our family looking out over the hillside neighbourhood beside stacked bamboo poles
Panorama of Medellín seen from the hillside neighbourhood under a cloudy sky
Metrocable gondolas crossing above the river with the hillside city behind

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Photo credit: Photos: Children of Medellín Foundation
Children watching a football match on the sand pitch above the neighbourhood

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Every donation goes to a foundation we have met in person. You will see exactly where it went.

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Our Impact

Small, open and growing.

We are at the beginning. These numbers will grow with every donation, and we will keep them honest — they update automatically with every donation received.

Including 3 donations from supporters like you.

1

Foundations supported

1

Projects supported

1

Countries

128

Children reached

€2,902

Total donated

The Echeverri Houweling family in Medellín, Colombia
Photo credit: Photo: Children of Medellín Foundation

About Us

A family foundation.

We are the Echeverri Houweling family. We started this foundation because we wanted our giving to be personal — to know the people, see the projects and understand where our support goes.

We look for foundations that share our purpose, we meet the people behind them, and we stay in touch.

“Together, we invest in children today for a better tomorrow.”

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