About

Since 2016, Our mission is to share the gift of creative dance to the most vulnerable children of Medellin, Colombia.

A donation of $25 pays for one student to experience
6 months of the following:

Weekly Dance Lessons

We provide dance classes for different rhythms, from basic to advanced levels, always having as a priority the fun, the development of the children and respecting their age and their social environment.

Year-End Recital

Each year the result of the teamwork during 12 months of practice is shown in the different artistic dance presentations, in different theatres of the city with open public where children, youth and parents participate.

Donations

Thanks to each Limelight sale, donations are made for transportation subsidies, sports clothing and extra dance classes for the children and youth of the project.

English Lessons

The development of a new language is essential to access to global opportunities that society offers, so we provide English lessons weekly to children between 8 and 15 years old.

Locations

Villa Danza

Villa Danza is a dance academy and it's one of the first places we started to work with between 2015 and 2016. It's a small place but it's well distributed for sharing space between regular Villa Danza students and Soul Dancers students that attend classes mostly on Saturdays. Advanced students attend classes during the week as well. From the mentioned permanence of some of the students, they have become teachers of classes such as ballet (for younger students) and street dance.

This is a private charity created in Bogotá Colombia by a catholic priest and expanded to Medellín. This place houses kids whose parents are unable to have them at home during the week. They attend school through Fundación Eudes who monitor their process and this place also hosts kids with AIDS and are medically treated in house. Not all the kids have the diagnosis and their medical information is confidential. Recently Fundación Eudes opened a housing project for adults with AIDS but we haven't visited the place because we are focused on children.

Fundación Eudes

Located in Copacabana (town at the north of Medellín). This place has capacity for 250 kids aprox. and has a similar but bigger structure than Fundación Eudes. The place houses kids (mostly girls) who can't live at their families houses because of the lack of appropriate conditions. Kids visit their families twice per month and pass through a system of internal education, inside the program and based on their discipline they earn certain benefits such as a private room. Kids attend school besides the building and older kids have access to technical education if they finish high school before 18 and show potential. It's important to acknowledge that in Colombia kids are helped by these places until they turn 18.

Fundación El Bohío de María (Copacabana)

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • 100% of all of the money goes directly to the kids distributed across our 3 locations.

  • Simply email us at info@souldancers.org and we’ll arrange a time to chat via phone

  • Absolutely. Soul Dancers is a registered charity and all funds are processed through CanadaHelps – the largest processor of online security and mutual fund donations in Canada.