Andres Arellano says, he has cared about helping out the nation that he said, ‘took in my family.’
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Col5Vid, a witty abbreviation for "Colombia Sin COVID," which means "Colombia without COVID-19," is among the most dynamic charity groups in Colombia today.

Its 25-year-old founder admitted that the concept was not "born at a board room table but on a bedroom sofa."

Expat Andres Arellano, who was born in Colombia and raised in South Florida, said he has never spent so much idle time. A couple of months ago, Arellano, also a financial analyst at a New York food-tech firm went through knee surgery and opted to recover in Bogota Colombia where his parents' home is located.

The Col5Vid founder just got to his parents' home in time for the COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia. This then meant, he'd stay there for a while.

Arellano said, while recovering from the surgery, instead of spending his idle time on Netflix, the young expat shared, he wanted to use it more productively.

Something struck Arellano while watching the news reports, specifically about the Colombians who could not feed their families and work because of the lockdown. "I've also cared" he continued, about helping out the nation that he said, "took in my family."

Col5Vid

Col5Vid is an organization comprising professionals and students who work together in support for Colombia's most vulnerable communities during the crisis, resulting from COVID-19. It is the group's primary role to "connect donors with their beneficiaries" transparently and efficiently.

The main objective of Col5Vid is to put up a bank of both "in-kind and monetary resources" to be distributed across the nation employing strategic alliances.

To date, the organization has already raised $65,000. Through the funds and help from its partners, Col5Vid has assisted in the creation of a network of charities in Colombia.

It has also assisted in the distribution of toiletry and grocery packages for one-month consumption, to thousands of families in need, even those in the "remote, southernmost Amazonas state of Colombia."

Alliances

Col5Vid offers various food coupon donation selections. Such vouchers are based on the grocery shopping food packages offered by Mercados La Recetta, and Grupo Exito includes $25 that can feed a single four-person household good for one month.

Additionally, this organization offers an effective and transparent platform, connecting faculty, students and alumni from different international colleges and university with the most susceptible and pandemic-affected Colombian communities.

Essentially, Col5Vid wants to foster a service link between the pandemic-wreaked communities in the country and the Colombian displacement.

That is why the organization has joined forces with "Give to Colombia" or G2C, which searches for the increase in the flow of international support to Colombia by means of proven transparency. Fundacion Grupo Argos is providing the dependable and "top-of-the-line" delivery of such donations.

G2C is a tax-exempt organization. Its main function is to facilitate the resources' channeling headed for "high-impact social projects" not just in Colombia, but the whole Latin America, as well.

Meanwhile, Fundacion Grupo Argos is an organization that shields water and biodiversity under an incorporated watershed model from which it discusses with communities to create strategies for conservation, eco-friendly culture and ecological production.

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