The Open Society network of foundations, created by the philanthropist George Sorosannounced this Tuesday that it will make a social investment of 16 million dollars in Colombia focused on issues with climate justice and gender, among others.
“During the pandemic we increased our investment due to the situation we had here, but now, this year, we see even more opportunities and we are reaching 16 million dollars this year in investments,” The executive director of Open Society for Latin America and the Caribbean, Pedro Abramovay, told EFE.
He added that they are going to support, mainly, civil society organizations, but they will also finance “actions of local governments and the national government to work on issues of climate justice, gender justice, security, homicide reduction, democracy and drug policy.”
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“We have a commitment to Colombia that is already more than a decade in which we invested in Colombian civil society, we always look for opportunities to work with local governments and with the national government”he claimed.
open society it has worked with civil society groups in Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1990s and has regional offices in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
In Colombia, the network works under the philosophy that democracy implies the participation and inclusion of all people in decision-making.
For this reason, it intends to reinforce democratic change, transforming the growing public interest in inequality, corruption and violence.
“We are at a time when Colombian society is discussing these issues in a very strong way and we have an opportunity to support civil society groups so that they have more possibilities,” added Abramovay.
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In that sense, Open Society is supporting “women’s rights organizations, Afro organizations, which range from supporting organizations themselves to do their work to the community house they are supporting in Buenaventura”the main port of Colombia in the Pacific.
“We look a lot where there is energy so that the democratic debate can be channeled and not violence”, he added.
Source: EFE
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