Medellín charities

A small U.S. 501(c)(3) working in low-income neighborhoods of northern Medellín, running an ambulance and emergency-response service (Emergencias Apolo), coding classes (Recode the Future), food package deliveries and a Christmas toy program.

Reduces educational inequality by delivering robotics, English, digital skills, socio-emotional learning and career guidance to 8,000+ low-income students in 31 urban and rural public schools in Medellín and the Nuquí region of Colombia's Pacific coast.

A Denver-based US 501(c)(3) that funds community-led projects in and around Medellín, Colombia, focused on children's nutrition, education, health care and safety, including a neighborhood soup kitchen, a youth soccer program and a children's home.

Founded in 2008, this Dutch-Colombian foundation promotes the social integration of 450+ children disadvantaged by poverty, violence, and addiction through comprehensive educational, sports, and cultural programs in Medellín's hillside comunas.

A feminist NGO founded in 1979 in Medellín that defends women's human rights in the city and three Antioquia subregions through work on economic empowerment, a life free from violence, and women's political participation, plus an annual rights-violations report.

Founded in 2014 by Lorena Vásquez and Yeinny Yanira Castro, provides psychosocial care, education and job help to 98 children and 98 young women from families living in Medellín's inquilinatos — rooming houses where whole families often share one room.