Ten years ago, the Fraternidad Medellín Foundation and the Aurelio Llano Posada Foundation decided to join forces with a shared conviction: to transform realities in rural Colombia through education, community empowerment, and sustainable rural development. A decade later, this alliance stands as a model of collaboration between foundations that believe in collective work and the power of local action.

Over the past ten years, we have supported hundreds of rural youth in their technical, technological, and university education, facilitating access to educational and job opportunities. Together, we have driven productive projects, strengthened farmers' organizations, promoted youth leadership, and fostered a sense of belonging and dignity in rural life through a comprehensive rural development model.

This alliance has reached multiple regions in Antioquia, always with the same focus: building capacities within rural communities so they can become the protagonists of their own development. We have invested in human capital, promoted generational renewal, and planted hope where once there was resignation.

The results speak for themselves: over 790 rural youth trained through the scholarships we jointly offer, hundreds of productive initiatives and organizations supported and strengthened, and countless lives transformed through comprehensive and sustainable training processes.

Beyond the numbers, what we celebrate today is a way of doing philanthropy—based on trust, complementarity, and mutual respect. The Aurelio Llano Posada Foundation has been a strategic, generous, and consistent ally, with a long-term vision that aligns with ours: to work toward a more just and equitable department by starting from the countryside

In these ten years, we have learned that a partnership is not just a mechanism for cooperation, but a powerful way to multiply impact and keep hope alive in territories that need more presence and more opportunities.

From Fraternidad Medellín, we express our heartfelt gratitude for this shared journey and reaffirm our commitment to continue working together. Because when two institutions unite with purpose, the results are not only visible—they can be truly felt.