A Positive Action by Katherine Quintero

In March when I was studying in my university, one day after clases a friend of mine told me something about a fundation and that information stayed on my mind, because always I wanted to be a volunteer but I didn´t know much about foundations.

The next weekend my friend invited me to the Colombia Crece Foundation, I remember that it was a saturday and I had arrived to 8:00 am in Belen Rincon because the clases started from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm but that morning had been raining since the night before and that day I had left my home at 7:40 am because I lived near to Belen Rincon and I was walking to foundation from home, I was thinking about if that was a good idea or if I really could teach to other people, it was a big challenge for me.

So, I arrived to the foundation and I could see and feel a lovely environment because all volunteers were so young like me and they looked so happy. I felt  motivated because since I was there everybody received me with love like a family. When I was with one grupe, I started to talk with Omar, he was a director of a target by foundation and he explained everything to me about the system and he invited me to a class with mothers because they were looking for volunteer teachers. In that moment I could understand the importance of education with that I could see how the education is a constant cycle and how it affects our future. I saw some moms didn´t know read and write and how it affected their children because they had´nt somebody in home that could help them with the school tasks, for that I decided to be a part of Colombia Crece Foundation, I became in a geography teacher all saturdays, and I had been teaching to moms during six months and I could learnt so much about the real life that is invisible for many people when mothers have to take a roll of  a father and mother at the same time, when the children some days couldn´t go to school because the neighborhood is dangerous because inside it has invisible barriers, I leart that and many other situations but the most important was the positive actitude of that women that didn´t matter the circumstances they were studying for their children, for the future.

This experience was incredible for me because I learnt real things about life and I could knew how with my time and my knowledge I could did a positive action without money and I know that I changed some lives with my action.

Today I´m not part of Colombia Crece because I don't have enough time but I want to come back in the future because we have to do something for the world. We are not alone, we have big problems that we are living every days, and It needs a solution.