Our history
1978
Chiquitines Adoption Center Foundation
In the year 1978the Women's Civic Committee of Cali, has taken the initiative to create the Chiquitines Adoption Center Foundation to respond to the situation of abandoned babies and children, whose right to a family life, integral development and a protected and loving childhood needed to be reestablished. The Foundation began its work on the second floor of the Ana Maria daycare center in the Versalles neighborhood of Cali. Since then, we have been working together with the ICBF, Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).nce we are the only institution authorized to carry out adoption processes in southwestern Colombia.
During the year 2013 the Chiquitines Adoption Center merges with the Fundación Ayuda a la Infancia Hogar Bambiwork initiated by Rupert Spillmann and the Fondation Aide Aux Enfants Foyers Bambi in Switzerland.
The new Foundation Ayuda a la Infancia Hogar Bambi ChiquitinesIn addition to its work for the protection of children in vulnerable situations and the adoption program, the program also focuses on family strengthening and community work.
2013
Merges
2020
Chiquitines Foundation
At the beginning of year 2020in the aftermath of the pandemic of covid-19the Fondation Aide Aux Enfants the decision to dissolve, withdrawing from Cali and from the Foundation, to become Chiquitines Foundation. We are strengthening our positioning as a pilot protection center, adjusting to the alternative care guidelines of United Nationsas well as the only IAPA in southwestern ColombiaIt is also a family strengthening center, aimed at families with children under protective measures and families in high-risk and vulnerable contexts.
Our purpose
Contribute to the strengthening of the family system and its contexts community, so that ensure the effective enjoyment of of the rights of girls and boys children in situations of vulnerability, in co-responsibility with the State and society.
Our dream
We dream of a Colombia where the best interests of children are a reality and allow them to feel loved, protected and respected.
Our values
Vocation: we serve with love, dedication and joy, to contribute to the well-being of children, families and collaborators.
Compassion: we feel and recognize the adversities that impact the lives of children, families and collaborators, and we generate actions that allow their transformation.
Integrity: We seek coherence between our way of being and acting and reflect this in transparent and ethical behavior that generates trust.
Respect: we recognize people as equal in rights and dignity within the framework of the diversity inherent to human beings.
Commitment: We enjoy what we do and we use all our skills to the best of our abilities to firmly achieve the Foundation's purpose.
