Home – Our Programmes
To help address the significant challenges in our local area, our ten lead community programmes are:
Academic Tutoring provides tailored educational and wellbeing support for 100 children from five communities. Please click HERE to read our Impact report from 2024.
We improve the level of English of 400+ children and 40+ adults in our local area every month by providing 60+ hours of English lessons.
Improving the level of English in the local community by providing 60+ hours of teaching for 300+ children and 40+ adults every week.
Involving 190+ children from the Indigenous town of Quebrada Del Sol in all our programmes. Including providing a year-round English teacher in 3 primaries and 1 secondary school.
Involving 190+ children from the Indigenous town of Quebrada Del Sol in all our programmes. Including providing a year-round English teacher in 3 primaries and 1 secondary school.
We provide fun, free, inclusive and impactful sport activities for 400+ young people. Our aim is to find every child in our local area an activity they love and can play regularly. All activities have a big focus on team-work and FUN!
We provide six hours of Art based environmental education each week to 60+ children from four communities.
Weekly sports and Arts activity opportunities for every child in our local town (350+).
we sponsored a school for 10 children who lived in isolated areas with no access to other education for four years and we now provide support as those children transition to secondary school. We also work with adults from Q.Del Platano to support various community initiatives.
We provide nine hours of educational and wellbeing support each week to 10+ 3-5 year olds in our local town.
Educational activities for 10+ 3-5 year olds, three mornings a week.
To address the huge gaps in environmental knowledge in our local area, we teach environmental education to inspire positive and pro-active climate action from 600 young people and their families.
We ensure the safety and wellbeing of all participants on our programmes with a pro-active implementation of our ‘Children First Child Protection Policy’. We have a full-time Foundation psychologist who supports children one-on-one and in groups. In 2025, we have also started five wellbeing clubs in five communities.
With the support of the FIFA Foundation and Common Goal, we provide 21 hours of football sessions each week to 250+ children. Through the sessions we empower girls, create a strong sense of belonging and improve the wellbeing of all participants.
We run sixteen hours of Dance clubs each week to strengthen children’s dancing skills, as well as improving self-esteem, confidence and wellbeing. Please click HERE to see our dance groups performing at Carnaval in Santa Marta in February.
Copyright 2024 The El Rio Foundation all rights reserved. Desarrollado por Factory IM SAS
