Charity Breakfast - Health Batallion

As the give time together campaign approaches, we as the team in charge of the 2009 campaign in Colombia got together to find a good opportunity to help to make a difference and to touch the community, several ideas come to mind but one stand above others, as you may know here in Colombia there is an armed conflict that affects all levels of the society, taking that in mind we thought that the best way to help would be to support and help our national army, vital part of the country and a group that work hard every day every night so we can live safely, so we can go to work. Read more »

SANAR FOUNDATION - It is a non profit institution, with national projection, dedicated to attend the children  with cancer and their families  during  the diagnostic and integral care by the disease, in the medical, psychological and painful aspects and to help them to bear its social problems. Read more »

COLOMBIA GIVE TIME TOGETHER
Luisito is a foundation for children with cancer located in the city of Bogota. Basically the foundation helps those people who are from outside the Capital and have children with symptoms or in treatment of this illness. The foundation facilitates families the accommodation and other basic needs so that they could accompany the children in his treatments.
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This year Sabre Colombia was joined by AeroRepublica and Trane of Colombia, to contribute to “Albergue Luisito” it was inaugurated in November of 1991 for the well-being of the children diagnosed with cancer that come from different regions of the country. Where they lodge to the children during the time they are in treatment and recovery, allowing that the mother stays in with them and covering their basics needs.  http://alberguecancer.space.live.com

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Hi From Colombia!!
I want to tell you a little about our participation; we are 31 employees in the Country and all the team participate, This year we choose to work with Sanar Foundation,  I am sending to you information attach about them and how they work.
 

Sabre Colombia will work with SANAR foundation to collaborate with the “Recycling program”.
 

Why did Sabre Colombia choose this program?
Because we can help these children with the materials we don’t use in our home like clothes, toys, newspaper, beds, or in our office like paper, letters, newspaper, cardboards, listings, bottles, tetra pack, crystals, desks, tables, and computers.

Although we have to learn as families and as coworkers that things we can’t use, we can give to another people, that we can recycle all the things we use in home and in the office so why not be conscious of the necessities of others and to preserve natural resources, like in this case of these children with cancer they can get extra fund through the recycling program.
 
What are we doing?
First of all, Cesar Perez our Tech Consultant presented the recycling concept and the Solid Residue Management where he explained about how to recycle in the office, in our homes, how to differentiate the different types of residue such as:
·        organics,
·        inorganic,
·        biodegradable,
·        non biodegradable and
·        domestics solids residue that classified in:
·        glasses packages,
·        fine and thickness plastic,
·        cardboard,
·        aluminum can,
·        paper,
·        polystyrene,
·        batteries,
·        metals,
·        tetrapack ,
·        sanitary ones

Based on this, Sabre Colombia is going to work to help Sanar’s Foundation and also our natural environment to preserve the resources, deciding to work in this program during all 2008 not only for the week of April.  Each employee can bring to the office the things we don’t use in our homes and also the Sabre’s office will recycle. We call Sanar every month and they come to collect the recycle materials.We did 2 activities ; The first Recycling Campaign was during February until March 14^th  on this date the foundation came to pick up all recycling staff that we collected.
The Second Recycling Campaign was from March 15^th until April 14^th.  this activity Trained one of the companies in the area who joined us in bringing all their recycling staff from their office.
 
We are collecting more recycling staff for May 14^th activity and so on. For the next activities we are inviting most of the companies that are located within our building location.
   

On October 4^th the Sabre Colombia team and the CAIPORA group visit the foundation in “Bella Flor” Community where we gave them the gifts we bought for them, in total 127 kids attended the activity.  The coordinator of the foundation showed us the community and explained to us the work that they have done with the children for the last 7 years. 

The children and the Sabre employees joined together to watch a presentation of the group CAIPORA and shared an afternoon of recreation.  Afterwards we gave the children a snack and their presents, along with the sports items we also gave clothing and paintings for the artist shop that they have.    

See the video http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3nCNOaMYo

The employees of Sabre Colombia organized a ruffle for one gift certificate for a dinner at a local restaurant.  Each employee had to sale 4 tickets that were sold for $2.5 USD each one. We collected a total of  USD 350,  The money we collected was used to buy sports items (balls, nets, etc…) for the kids of “Bella Flor” community.  

Santiago Gallegos from the CSC was the winner of the gift certificate and received it from Antonio Diaz general manager for Colombia. The ruffle was done on October the 3^rd. 

Activity No 1:

Date: September 27^th

Place: Companies in the Mega Banco Zone (the part of Bogota where SABRE’s offices are located)

Activity: The Sabre Team participated during the day visiting the companies and collecting money for the upcoming activity at Bella Flor Community also The Sabre employees participated by donating the funds that we collected for the monthly team lunch, the total amount collected was USD 150.

The different type of Violence that we face in Colombia, particularly generated by the armed groups caused a series of problem for our society especially for the rural population.
The mayor cities receives daily a steady flow of families displaced from their homes in Colombia’s countryside creating a serie of burgeoning poor neighborhood that in some cases receive support and organizational assistance from the government and different  kind of foundations.

SABRE COLOMBIA 

Chosen organization to work with: 

CAIPORA Foundation, a non -profit organization in Bogota that  helps people who have been forced out of their homes due to the violence in Colombia. 

 Objective:

To help these people  who have been forced  to leave their homes because of violence and who have been relocated to  a different neighborhood, “El Barrio Bella Flor” in Bogota.  Read more »

 I collect  ideas  from  the whole team on  what to do and suggestions regarding which foundations we  could   help ( all around the office, we posted  Give Together  f liers to  motivate everyone  to participate).   

 Choose  a  Charity to support:   Every one gave me a positive answer and agreed  to support  a   Children’s  foundation. so after  we verified all the list of  possible organizations,  we choose CRAN = Children’s from 2 to 7 years victims of abuse from their parents.

To collects founds   to give the foundation  as  a donation,  but  we prefer  to  buy something they need.  So, we are organizing a “Charity Chocolate afternoon “ 

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