NETWORK: RCN Colombian National Network
Barranquilla, Colombia, Dec 8,2021
These are the stories that we love to share. A new generation of dreamers has arrived in the capital of the Atlántico region in Colombia. As the organization grows, they continue pushing to help the development of the most vulnerable communities.
Today more than one hundred kids start working on their dreams and their families.
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Small in age but giants when it comes to dreaming. It is the story of the 195 children who are part of the foundation that just arrived in Barranquilla to inspire a true social transformation.
Far from letting themselves stuck in their daily struggle to survive, now they are working to become what they always dreamed of. “My dream is to be an architect when I grow up,” said Joseph Borja, one the foundation’s program recipients.
While Joseph envisions creating innovative houses, Samuel prepares exquisite Italian dishes, and Dayanis dreams that her designs inspired by coastal sunsets will appear on European fashion shows one day. “I come from my father’s blood because my father likes to sew a lot,” Dayanis added.
On the other hand, Samuel Ariza says he wants to help his family, grandparents, and his sister.
It was precisely amid the lack of opportunities and the desire to survive where this north American foundation found its mission to promote a new generation of dreamers.
Amanda Moore is the executive director of Forward Foundation. At the organization’s launch in Barranquilla this past December she said the mission is to inspire children to dream. “We want to have those agents of change that can impact their communities,” Moore added.