{"id":31270,"date":"2022-11-10T18:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/children-of-medellin-help-children-in-disadvantaged-neighborhoods-to-a-better-future\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T02:32:38","slug":"children-of-medellin-help-children-in-disadvantaged-neighborhoods-to-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besabine.com\/en\/children-of-medellin-help-children-in-disadvantaged-neighborhoods-to-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Medell\u00edn | Help children in disadvantaged neighborhoods to a better future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medell\u00edn’s famous cable car goes higher and higher. The view becomes more beautiful, the center smaller and the slums high in the mountains get closer and closer. At the very top we get off. My namesake Sabine, who is also more or less from the same village as me but whom I met in Colombia, runs across the street to make the already packed buseta<\/em> wait. Two Sabines can still be added. The bus crammed itself through the narrow steep street at breakneck speed even higher up the mountain. Actually it doesn’t fit at all, but we are in Colombia so with a lot of wriggling, wiggling and with help from people on the street it fits anyway. After half an hour, we arrive at the place where Sabine has been working for years: Children of Medell\u00edn Foundation. A place where hundreds of children from surrounding disadvantaged neighborhoods are guided toward a better future. Where you can volunteer or contribute in some other way. A place I am finally visiting after years. And which I’m going to tell you all about now.<\/p>\n

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Children of Medell\u00edn Foundation in Colombia<\/h2>\n
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Although Colombia is a modern country where people with money live in luxury, there is also another side of the coin. In the poorer neighborhoods of larger cities, poverty, neglect, violence, addiction and sexual harassment are order of the day. A situation that millions of children grow up in and have difficulty getting out of.<\/p>\n

Many aid organizations are active in Colombia to help children in poverty find a better future. With better education, learning skills and thus creating opportunities to escape from that predicament. One of these organizations is Children of Medell\u00edn<\/strong><\/a>, formerly Street Children Medell\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\t\t