Alpina Foundation

WHO WE ARE?

The Alpina Foundation works to improve the Food and Nutritional Security (SAN) generating and transferring knowledge. Build institutional capacities and communities for sustainability and autonomy.

Our goal is to promote and / or execute directly or in partnership, initiatives, projects, programs and activities that contribute to improving food and nutrition security of the population.

Through its Foundation, Alpina also generates collective prosperity transferring their knowledge to vulnerable communities and strengthens its commitment to geographical areas where it is present.

LED BY

Executive Director

Eduardo Diaz Uribe

Board main:

Jeanette Münger Bazinger

Fernando Osorio Loboguerrero

Ernesto Fajardo Pinto

Iván López Arango

Juan Pablo Fernández González

Substitutes:

Juan Fernando Restrepo Maya

José Fernando Arzola D'Erizans

Carlos Alberto Roncallo

Gustavo Alberto Badino

Cortázar Beatriz Mora

Alternate Legal Representative:

Carlos Armando Mejia Bonilla

WORK AREAS

• Strengthening technical capacity of communities.
• Support for social, economic, autonomous and sustainable development of the same.
• Food education.
• Influencing public policies to develop and strengthen the capacities of communities.

HISTORY

Since 2009 the Alpina Foundation carries out projects  Colombia and Ecuador with the aim of promoting human development through methodologies and mechanisms that strengthen the productive capacities of communities and improve their nutritional status, with priority given to children and their families in a sustainable way.

In 2014 the program benefited 9,647 families and executed from partnerships with public and private entities such as the governorates of Cauca and La Guajira, the Municipality of Tocancipá, SENA, Mexico's FEMSA Foundation and the Promigas Foundation, among other.

In execution, it empowered communities to improve their nutritional status autonomously, through programs of technical and production development and implementation of innovative approaches in food education and interventions promoting healthy lifestyles.


In six years, the Alpine Foundation presents a balance of 37 projects in Colombia and three in Ecuador, and culminating each other in development. In addition, he has published 65 manuals and documents that systematize the lessons learned and participation in public policy to build scenarios.

OTHER DATA

The Alpina Foundation has published several books, magazines and other documents intended orientation on topics such as nutrition, food, agricultural credits and other related topics.

CONTACT

Bogotá, Colombia

Km 3. vía Briceño-Sopó, Edificio corporativo Alpina
Tel (57-1) 4238600 Ext 1063