FUNO Outreach Program

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FUNO Foundation is looking for initiatives that boost the communities in which we operate, also supporting education, local employment and/or environmental conservation. Winning projects will receive funding for their implementation.

Convocation terms and registry will be available from September 1st to September 30th 2023. For more information send us an email to fundación@fibrauno.mx.

FUNDACION AITANA

Fundación Aitana

Project name: No one fights alone.

Amount donated: $ 3,626,948.11 MXN.

Foundation: Fundación Aitana A.C.

Sponsoring property: La Isla II Cancún.

Beneficiaries: 300 directos y 100 indirectos.

Description: Fundación Aitana, located in the Pedregal neighborhood in Cancun, Quintana Roo, provides a shelter equipped with a playroom, special areas for teens and toddlers, diner, bedrooms and school. This shelter provides support to children and youth fighting cancer who are not able to attend other schools due to medical conditions, or require lodging while receiving medical care and are out of their community.

This project consisted in the construction of a classroom for 28 students, in which English and Computer Science lessons, and tutorships are given. Furthermore, a third floor was built to offer lodging for more people, an indoor court and a stage for sports and cultural events.

Additionally, the complex has been equipped with solar panels to provide energy for their lighting needs.

UNIDOS POR LA MONTAÑA

Unidos por la montaña

Project name: Sustaining the future.

Amount donated: $ 5,000,000.00 MXN.

Foundation: Unidos por la Montaña A.C.

Sponsoring property: Corporativo Samara.

Beneficiaries: 1,376

Description: This project consists of carrying out strategic actions that will have a positive impact on health, food, income, environment, social cohesion, basic services, infrastructure, housing and education of the communities located on Puma Rosa, El Limón and Zapote Blanco; located in the mountains of Guerrero.

The starting point of all actions has been training and sensibilization of locals on the elaboration of stabilized adobe bricks and encouragement of community work to generate social cohesion within the communities.

During the development of these works, members of the communities received equivalent working conditions compared to construction workers. A vermicomposter was built and an extension of t an existing roof were built, and 35 backyard agroecological orchards were developed.

A house for rural teachers was renovated, 48 kitchens equipped with wood-saving stoves were built, reforestation within those communities happened, 13 homes were renewed and a preschool was built.

JARDIN BOTANICO ACAPULCO

Jardín botánico de Acapulco

Project name: Wastewater treatment plant for irrigation

Amount donated: $ 1,305,255.00 MXN.

Foundation: Jardín Botánico de Acapulco A.C.

Sponsoring property: Galerías Diana, Acapulco.

Beneficiaries: 3,020

Description: The botanical garden of Acapulco borders with the Cumbres de Llano Largo neighborhood, a community that covers an area of approximately 67 hectares, in which 756 housing units are located and pour their sewage through the “open sky” waterbed, which crosses the garden’s facilities and finally flows into the sea.

The project’s main objective was the usage and proper treatment of wastewater, resulting in more than just a garden irrigation system, but also brought benefits for Acapulco’s community, since it prevents these contaminated waters from reaching the bay.

The above happened through the installation of a Wastewater Treatment Plant whose energy is supplied by solar panels that were installed.

Fundación Te queremos Ayudar

Fundación Te queremos ayudar

Project name: Healing my burnt skin.

Amount donated: $1,311,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 250

Description: The mission Te Queremos Ayudar has, is to bring proper help, free of any charges, to children in low-income environments of Veracruz and surrounding localities that suffered severe burns.

This project provides medical, psychological and economical aid to children, victims of mild to severe burns, giving them medicine, bandages, cultured skin patches, reconstructive surgery, prosthesis, compression garments and accessories like pediatric walkers, wheelchairs and crutches.

Furthermore, to help low-income families to get in touch with specialized health services, providing travel allowance for transportation, accommodation, and food.

On the other side, through risk prevention campaigns, we bring awareness to the population within the zone on latent burn risks, especially at home.

Reinserta

Reinserta

Project name: Attention protocol for children and teenagers that have survived serious violence situations.

Amount donated: $3,664,788.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 45 monthly survivors.

Description: Reinserta is a non-governmental organization that works with children and teenagers that have been exposed to situations of trauma related to violence in Mexico. It brings comprehensive care, considering health (mental and physical), accompaniment, and legal representation to promote the protection of them and their human rights, educational follow-up and overcoming of trauma.

Cruz Roja Mexicana

Cruz Roja Mexicana

Project name: Operating room, emergency room and other hospital areas remodeling.

Amount donated: $4,671,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 106,300 local residents.

Description: La Cruz roja is a private aid humanitarian institution, dedicated to preserving health and life, and relieving human suffering, encouraging selfcare culture in people and communities through volunteering.

This project consisted of the remodeling of their hospital facility in the region of Tlanepantla, Estado de Mexico. With this, we helped a large scale of residents, providing proper health services and high-quality medical aid for ill and emergency patients in an immediate way; without needing to transfer them to other hospitals.

Cruz Roja Mexicana

Ectagono

Project name: Water reservoir in Tarango.

Amount donated: $2,590,340.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 110,000 local residents.

Description: Ectagono is an institution dedicated to drive actions that create a balance between environment, people and economy through the design and implementation of strategies focused on regenerative development to achieve successful sustainability.

The objective of this project is the construction of the first water reservoir on one of the last canyons with vegetation coverage in Mexico City: Tarango.

The reservoir has a storage capacity of 580,000 liters of water coming from rain and wastewater from Rio Puerta Grande, which allows the zone to have availability of this resource during drought seasons. The Tarango canyon, located in the Alvaro Obregon municipality, is the last natural gully of Mexico City, that during the last 50 years has suffered deforestation, desertification, forest fires and loss of biodiversity.

Casa de la Amistad para Niños con Cáncer

Casa de la Amistad para Niños con Cáncer

Project name: FUNO stands for children with cancer.

Amount donated: $4,000,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 25 children.

Description: Casa de la Amistad para Niños con Cancer is a private aid institution committed to raising the survival chances of low-income children and teenagers in Mexico who are fighting cancer.

The project consists of funding for proper treatment of 20 children, including two years of companionship during the process, and five prosthesis.

Fundación Vuela sin límites

Fundación Vuela sin límites

Project name: FUNO stands for children with cancer.

Amount donated: $3,950,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 330 children.

Description: Vuela Sin Límites is a foundation whose goal is to improve the life quality of children fighting cancer and their families during their treatment, giving them multidisciplinary and high quality tools to understand and face the disease, providing medical, human and economic aid according to their needs.

The project consists of supporting low-income children who are fighting cancer with treatment, clinical studies and medicine.

Institución Aquí Nadie se Rinde

Aquí Nadie se Rinde

Project name: FUNO stands for children with cancer.

Amount donated: $5,600,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 34 children.

Description: Aquí Nadie Se Rinde is a private aid non-profit that helps children and teenagers fighting cancer, as well as their family, caregivers or guardians.

The project consists of funding bone marrow transplants, treatment, and medicine.

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Project name: FUNO perpetual scholarships.

Amount donated: $8,000,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 2 students during a four-year period for perpetuity.

Description: The project consists of giving two full scholarships to outstanding young people during their four-year undergraduate bachelor period, to be able to study a professional degree at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

“Lideres del Mañana” is an inclusive and charitable effort, to form transformation leaders with social impact, focused on brilliant young people that require full financial support to get a degree.

APAC, I.A.P. Asociación Pro - Personas con Parálisis Cerebral

APAC, I.A.P. Asociación Pro - Personas con Parálisis Cerebral

Project name: Atlas 2030 pediatric exoskeleton. Technological Innovation for Children’s Rehabilitation and Education.

Amount donated: $1,500,000.00 MXN.

Beneficiaries: 500 children.

Description: APAC I.A.P is a private aid institution that brings specialized attention to people with cerebral palsy and related disabilities. Their goal is to improve the life quality of the patients with this condition, through more than 80 services in three main aspects: health and rehabilitation, formal education, and alternative education.

The project consists of obtaining a Atlas 2030 pediatric exoskeleton to be able to reach the rehabilitation and educational goals of every beneficiary, reducing the rehabilitation time by 70%.