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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

Our experience

We found a foundation that shares our purpose, met the team and the children, and saw their work with our own eyes.

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.

What stayed with us is how much is done with how little. That is why we decided to support them directly, and why we will keep coming back.

We contributed

€2,700

≈ COP 10,000,000

Foundation
Children of Medellín
Location
Medellín, Colombia
Year
2026
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

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