“A healthy business cannot exist in an unhealthy social environment, because sooner or later the ills of the environment will affect its performance. For this reason, a responsible business leader must necessarily be committed to the solution of social problems”.

Manuel Carvajal Sinisterra, 1960

Fundación Carvajal is a nonprofit organization created in 1961 through the donation made by the Carvajal family of 23% of the shares in the Carvajal group to the Foundation, making it its biggest shareholder to promote improvement in most in need communities’ life quality of Valle del Cauca (Colombia).

Currently, the Foundation develops interventions in the Aguablanca District (Communes 13, 14 and 15) and Hillside Area (Commune 18 and Montebello village) from the city of Santiago de Cali and in 14 municipalities in the Valle del Cauca through projects and income generation programs, education and housing that run under alliances with entities of public and private sector.