Nu3 Foundation

Over half of households in Colombia’s Atlantic department live in conditions of food insecurity (hunger, fear of starvation, or extremely poor nutrition), compared to 43% nationally, with a particularly dangerous impact on pregnant women, approximately half of whom are malnourished. Young women also face higher rates of unemployment than their male counterparts: nearly 30% of young women age 14-26 are unemployed, versus 21% of men in the same age range.

Nu3 was founded in 2005 to address the nutritional and development needs of children and families living in poverty in Barranquilla (the capital of the Atlantic department), using the issue of food security as an entry point to address related needs in the areas of health, education, livelihoods, and psychosocial support. Active in 19 municipalities in the Atlantic and Magdalena departments, Nu3’s programs currently serve 21,000 children and parents annually.

EMpower’s first grant to Nu3 is supporting the organization to develop and launch a new program aimed at equipping pregnant and parenting adolescent girls and young women, whose children are served by Nu3’s nutrition programs, to become successful micro-entrepreneurs.

Colombia
Website: http://www.nutrirbarranquilla.org/
Year Established: 2005