Chapter Profile
BWB Colombia
BWB Colombia chapter profile, contacts, collaboration opportunities, and related updates.
Chapter Snapshot
- Status
- unknown
- Metro / Region
- Colombia
- Country
- Colombia
Contact and Links
Email: colombia@burnerswithoutborders.org
Official BWB page: https://burnerswithoutborders.org/chapters/colombia/
Social media: instagram
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Local Context
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Collaboration Priorities
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Research Notes
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Open Questions
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- Which opportunities are already connected to this chapter?
- What recent chapter activity should be reflected here?
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Potential Collaboration Opportunities
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Fundación Casa Tres Patios
Fundación Casa Tres Patios is a Medellín-based arts, pedagogy, research, and social-justice organization that works with creativity, critical thinking, and vulnerable populations. It fits BWB Colombia where participatory art, youth empowerment, and civic activation overlap with the chapter's Burner-informed community practice.
- Co-design youth art-and-resilience workshops connected to Ikigai Explorers-style programming.
- Build a participatory public-art or creative-reuse installation with local youth and artists.
- Host a listening session on art, social justice, and community-led project design in Medellín.
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Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño
FUGA is a Bogotá public cultural foundation with arts programming, exhibitions, events, creative-economy work, and links to Bronx Distrito Creativo. It is a plausible partner for BWB Colombia projects involving public culture, participatory art, center-city activation, and permitted cultural programming.
- Co-host a participatory art build or temporary installation connected to sustainability or community care.
- Use FUGA programming channels to recruit artists and volunteers for a civic activation day.
- Explore a Bronx Distrito Creativo-linked workshop on creative reuse, repair, or public-space stewardship.
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Banco de Alimentos de Bogotá
Banco de Alimentos de Bogotá receives, classifies, stores, and distributes food and goods while coordinating companies, academia, nonprofits, donors, beneficiaries, and volunteers. It fits BWB Colombia for food-recovery logistics, volunteer sorting, event surplus recovery, and direct support to vulnerable households.
- Organize a BWB volunteer shift for sorting, packing, or food-recovery support.
- Create an event-surplus donation protocol for Burner-adjacent gatherings in Bogotá.
- Pair BWB art/community events with a food-drive or hygiene-supply collection for the bank's beneficiary network.
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Fundación SACIAR, Banco de Alimentos
Fundación SACIAR is a Medellín food bank focused on fighting hunger, recovering food waste, strengthening institutions, and serving vulnerable populations through public-private-community alliances. It is especially relevant because BWB Colombia's public writeup highlights major food-distribution work in Medellín.
- Support food sorting, packing, or meal-distribution logistics in Medellín.
- Connect BWB Colombia's Medellín mutual-aid contacts with SACIAR's food-bank infrastructure.
- Run a food-waste recovery campaign after community events or festivals.
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Fundación Natura Colombia
Fundación Natura Colombia works on biodiversity conservation, resilient territories, reserves, research centers, native plant nurseries, restoration, and community environmental initiatives. This closely fits BWB Colombia's Germinator, Chingaza, páramo, native-tree, and carbon-offset work.
- Seek technical guidance on native species, nurseries, monitoring, and restoration design for BWB tree-planting work.
- Co-host a volunteer stewardship day tied to native plant propagation or high-mountain ecosystem education.
- Develop a simple impact-tracking template for BWB restoration days.
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Fundación Humedales
Fundación Humedales is a Colombian NGO based in Bogotá that focuses on aquatic ecosystems, participatory natural-resource management, environmental education, productive-practice improvements, and strengthening community associations. It is a strong fit for BWB Colombia's water, páramo, wetland, and public-education themes.
- Co-host a wetland or water-cycle education day linking Bogotá's water systems to páramo protection.
- Organize stewardship days with community groups around urban or peri-urban aquatic ecosystems.
- Build simple interpretive materials connecting BWB restoration work to water security.
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Caring for Colombia
Caring for Colombia is a U.S. 501(c)(3) that provides fiscal sponsorship and grant support for Colombia-based nonprofits and projects. It could help BWB Colombia-linked initiatives receive U.S.-based tax-deductible donations, manage compliance, or connect with donor networks.
- Explore fiscal sponsorship for a specific Colombia-based BWB civic project.
- Route a U.S.-based matching campaign for tree planting, youth workshops, or community food support.
- Ask for eligibility guidance before launching a cross-border fundraiser.
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Give To Colombia
Give To Colombia is a tax-exempt resource-mobilization platform for projects in Colombia and Latin America, with stated pillars including education, health and nutrition, environment, economic development, water and sanitation, and humanitarian aid. Those pillars overlap with BWB Colombia's restoration, youth, and direct-service work.
- Explore donor-advised or project-based giving for a defined BWB Colombia initiative.
- Seek guidance on funding a reforestation, youth, or food-security campaign with transparent reporting.
- Use the organization as a credibility bridge for U.S. or international donors.
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Conceptos Plásticos
Conceptos Plásticos transforms recycled plastic into construction materials and circular-economy projects with social, environmental, and economic impact. It is a practical fit for BWB Colombia projects involving creative reuse, temporary infrastructure, benches, shade, storage, classrooms, or repair/build prototypes.
- Prototype a small recycled-plastic civic structure for a school, garden, or community hub.
- Co-host a circular-economy education day connected to BWB sustainability programming.
- Seek in-kind or discounted materials for a community build that demonstrates plastic-waste reuse.
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EatCloud
EatCloud uses technology to connect surplus food with food banks and social organizations, reducing waste, hunger, and emissions. It could strengthen BWB Colombia's food-recovery and event-surplus logistics, especially when BWB gatherings produce usable excess food.
- Build an event food-rescue workflow for Burner-adjacent gatherings in Bogotá or Medellín.
- Connect BWB food-distribution contacts with EatCloud's surplus-food redistribution platform.
- Track avoided food waste and emissions as part of BWB sustainability reporting.
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Jardín Botánico de Bogotá José Celestino Mutis
Bogotá's Botanical Garden is a public environmental institution with scientific, educational, cultural, and urban-greening functions. It is a strong fit for BWB Colombia's native-plant, bee, youth, urban-garden, and environmental-education work.
- Seek technical guidance on native plants, pollinator habitat, or urban greening.
- Co-host a native-plant or pollinator education event tied to Bee Safe or The Germinator.
- Connect BWB volunteers to official urban-greening or environmental-education programming.
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SENA Tecnoparque
SENA Tecnoparque provides technical advising, technology transfer, social appropriation of knowledge, and access to specialized laboratory infrastructure for prototype production. It fits BWB Colombia projects that need fabrication, prototyping, low-cost infrastructure, repair, or applied technical mentoring.
- Prototype small-scale civic infrastructure such as seedling racks, mobile repair carts, signage, or water-monitoring hardware.
- Pair BWB volunteers with SENA technical mentors for a design sprint around restoration or community-service tools.
- Explore student/service-learning support for build days that have clear safety and learning objectives.
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FabLab Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín
The Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellín FabLab has documented digital-fabrication capacity including laser cutters, CNC routers, 3D printing, and cutting equipment. It could be useful for prototyping BWB Colombia community-build components, interpretive signage, educational kits, or repair tools.
- Ask about a university-community design challenge for restoration, youth, or community-kitchen infrastructure.
- Fabricate low-cost signage, education objects, or build-day templates for BWB projects.
- Invite design or architecture students to co-develop prototypes with local community partners.
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Mupho
Mupho is described by Bogotá's official city site as a Bosa community organization operating an olla comunitaria that prepares 1,500 to 2,000 meals per month for recyclers and people experiencing homelessness. It is a credible local mutual-aid lead for BWB Colombia's food, street outreach, and flexible community-support interests.
- Support a supply drive for food, hygiene items, serving supplies, or safe storage.
- Offer BWB volunteers for setup, cleanup, logistics, or creative community programming around meal days.
- Learn from Mupho before designing any BWB community-kitchen or street-outreach project.
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TECHO Colombia
TECHO Colombia works in informal settlements on housing and habitat challenges through volunteers and community participation. This is a strong practical fit for BWB Colombia where build days, youth volunteers, community listening, and material support could combine.
- Join or support a TECHO habitat/build effort with BWB volunteers where appropriate.
- Co-host a volunteer-orientation or community-listening day before any build.
- Pair BWB creative-build skills with TECHO's settlement and habitat experience.
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Fundación Mi Sangre
Fundación Mi Sangre works on youth-led peacebuilding, leadership, care, narrative, and community transformation in Colombia. It fits BWB Colombia's youth empowerment and arts/culture-adjacent civic programming, especially if BWB wants to expand Ikigai-style youth work.
- Co-design youth leadership sessions using art, storytelling, and practical community-service projects.
- Invite youth leaders into BWB environmental or public-art projects as co-designers, not just volunteers.
- Share facilitation methods around care, peacebuilding, and community narratives.
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Instituto Distrital de la Participación y Acción Comunal - IDPAC
IDPAC promotes citizen participation and strengthens social and community organizations in Bogotá, including Juntas de Acción Comunal. It is a practical route to resident leaders, advisory circles, local listening sessions, community media, and neighborhood-level project co-design.
- Ask IDPAC how BWB Colombia can meet relevant Juntas de Acción Comunal before proposing neighborhood projects.
- Use Casa de la Participación or Escuela de Participación resources for civic-listening and leadership workshops.
- Co-design a small neighborhood cleanup, art, or repair day with JAC leaders and residents.
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BibloRed - Red Distrital de Bibliotecas Públicas de Bogotá
BibloRed is Bogotá's public-library network and includes community-facing spaces for reading, culture, research, science, technology, innovation, and co-creation. Its Salas LabCo are explicitly designed for experimentation, learning by doing, collaboration, and connecting organizations, people, and projects.
- Host BWB youth workshops on repair, reuse, pollinators, water, or civic imagination in a library setting.
- Use Salas LabCo for co-creation sessions around neighborhood resilience or public art.
- Build a resource fair with BWB volunteers, local nonprofits, and library staff around practical community needs.
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Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje - SENA
SENA is Colombia's national public workforce-training institution under the labor-sector ecosystem, with 33 regional offices and 118 training centers, including Bogotá headquarters. Its documented programs include safe work-at-heights training, labor-competency evaluation and certification, mobile classrooms for rural and vulnerable communities, and short technical courses in fields such as construction, electronics, mechanics, agriculture, audiovisual production, graphic arts, and ICT. For BWB Colombia, whose official chapter page emphasizes volunteer mobilization, environmental field projects, youth empowerment, and hands-on local action, SENA could be a practical partner for safety preparation, field-skills training, and pathways for community participants to receive recognized competency support.
- Coordinate safe-work-at-heights, rescue, tool-safety, or fieldwork-preparation training for BWB volunteers before reforestation, rural-school, or community build days.
- Invite SENA regional centers or mobile classrooms to co-host short skills workshops with community partners in rural areas where BWB Colombia already works.
- Refer interested community participants to SENA's free labor-competency certification process when BWB projects surface existing practical skills.
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Escuela Nacional Sindical
Escuela Nacional Sindical is a Medellín-based Colombian civil-society organization focused on the world of work, labor rights, worker organizations, research, training, advocacy, and advisory services. Its public materials describe more than 40 years of work with workers and unions across Colombia, including education, research, health and work, gender and differential approaches, negotiation, production and work, and support for new forms of worker organization. BWB Colombia could use ENS as a knowledge partner when volunteer projects touch labor rights, informal work, community employment pathways, safe and healthy work, or worker participation in civic projects.
- Host a nonpartisan worker-rights and safe-volunteer-practice workshop for BWB volunteers and community participants.
- Ask ENS to advise on ethical community-project design where unpaid volunteer work, paid local labor, and youth skill-building overlap.
- Co-create a discussion or training session on informal work, care work, migrant labor vulnerability, or worker safety for communities involved in BWB Colombia projects.
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Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia
CUT Colombia is one of the country's major national labor federations and is publicly described as a large umbrella organization of unions. Secondary public sources identify CUT as a major Colombian trade-union center, and available directory-style sources indicate functional labor departments such as education, health and work, youth, women, environment/resources, organization, and relations with social sectors. That breadth could make CUT a useful referral or convening lead if BWB Colombia wants worker-informed safety culture, union volunteer participation, or links to sector-specific unions for community build, repair, or resource-distribution projects.
- Request a referral to local or sector-specific unions with members experienced in construction safety, logistics, education, environmental work, or community mobilization.
- Explore a low-risk volunteer orientation on worker safety culture, dignified collaboration with paid local labor, and avoiding accidental labor exploitation in community projects.
- Invite CUT's social-sector or education contacts, if active and appropriate, to join a listening session about community resilience projects in Bogotá or nearby regions.
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