The Castañeda Kids Foundation is a 501(c)3 corporation that strives to feed families, provide medical care, and provide educational opportunities to children in impoverished areas of El Salvador. Each basket contained basic staples, a whole chicken, rice, beans, sugar, flour, oil, spaghetti, along with some cookies and a toy, presented in a reusable bucket. The food basket would feed a family of 4 for roughly a week. The food basket program grew by way of donations and in 1998, the Carlos and Marina Castañeda Foundation was launched which built upon the scholarship program with a handful of school scholarships. The scholarship program has changed the lives of many children, enabling them to get out of a system that limits their ability to succeed. Some of the children have gone on to get advanced degrees. Some of those children who succeeded have returned to volunteer and help out the organization to make sure that other people that were in their previous situations succeed as well. The foundation is now carried forward by the four Castañeda children in their late parents’ honor. Thanks to donations, The Castañeda Kids Foundation has expanded our efforts, including:
- 70 scholarships a year
- 3 sports programs in different schools, which keeps kids busy, healthy and out of gangs
- a yearly medical mission, with approximately 70 doctors, nurses, EMT personnel, interpreters, and lay people, all volunteering their time to see and treat up to 3,000 people in a week.
- a music program that motivates kids to stay in school and also succeed academically. We have other smaller programs we are helping with as well. If you would like to contribute towards our goal to help feed, educate and care for families without means of doing it for themselves, please contact us at [email protected]. Also, please check out our website at
https://tckfoundation.com
