During the month of April, Fundación Calicanto participated in the GlobalGiving April Challenge. For those unfamiliar with the organization, Global Giving, it is a fundraising website where non-profits can post their projects and look for small, medium and large donations from people across the world. The challenge was to raise at least $4,000 from 50 [...]
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Congratulations CAPTA graduates!
October 20th, 2010
Today at the Bern International Hotel School in Ciudad de Saber, another 20+ women are graduating from Calicanto’s CAPTA program. This course was the first to feature training to work in the food service industry, so expect to see some of these women working in your favorite local restaurants soon! This is also an appropriate [...]
The Casco raises Jazz stars and trains leaders
August 6th, 2010
Two stories from this past week will help us go into the weekend on the right note. In the first, the protagonists are three adolescents who belong to the Boyacá, one of our favorite Casco landmarks both for it’s design (it also goes by the name Casa del Barco for its likeness to a ship’s [...]
Casco Antiguo Heroes
August 5th, 2010
One of our favorite local NGOs, Fundación Calicanto, was featured on TVN Noticias in their program, Héroes. See the video below.
How $900 Can Change a Family’s Fortunes Forever
July 20th, 2010
Three years ago, the life of El Chorillo resident Julia Sánchez, in her own words, “had no direction”. In her home there was never enough money to make ends meet and in her mind she could not see a way out of poverty for her family. When she happened upon a program offered by a [...]
