Sustainability
Report 2021

San Andrés and Providencia

As a second-tier charitable foundation, we also want to give wings to different social impact projects that need a boost to fly higher. Here we will highlight our work throughout 2021 in collaboration with different allies supporting special projects in favor of inclusion, education, and the generation of opportunities.

During 2020 we accompanied the inhabitants of San Andres and Providencia after the impact of hurricanes Eta and Iota, which caused 98% damage in Providencia and left more than 6,000 people affected. We made Viva's planes available for humanitarian and cargo flights and in three weeks we collected basic supplies from food staples, clothes, diapers, drinking water and other items with Viva's collaborators to provide timely assistance to the main victims of this natural phenomenon. We also provided the local Providencia Hospital with hospital equipment and medicines.

In 2021 we continued our support of the islands and working in a coordinated manner, we joined, through Antioquia Presente and the "BBT" Alliance ('Back Better Together') to restore the living conditions of the affected families.

Humanos 3D Corporation

The Humanos 3D Corporation designs and delivers, free of charge, personalized assistive devices for children, young people, and adults who, due to birth or accident, do not have upper limbs.

Thanks to 3D printing and a team of professionals and volunteers committed to inclusion, the beneficiaries recover their independence, improve their self-esteem, and integrate much more easily into society.

Vamos pa'lante

We joined the Vamos pa'lante program led by seven universities in the country to support the rescue of university students who, due to the pandemic and its economic consequences, were going to abandon their professional careers. With our contribution, it was possible for 11 students to receive scholarships and continue with their academic journey; a way of promoting education as an engine for development.

Food Bank

We contributed to the important work of the Bogotá Food Bank to end hunger, and together we sent 39 tons of food to San Andrés. Together we supported 690 families on the island, representing 2,760 people distributed as follows:

We also donated a fruit pulping machine that will allow locals to process the products that arrive in an advanced state of ripeness to avoid waste. With the implementation of this process, 500 tons of fruit per year will be saved.

Transforming realities

With our allies Fundación Razas Única, Rotaract, Corporación Sueños y Huellas, Fundación el Arca en mi Casita, Río Foundation, Fundación Fruto Bendito and Fundación Saetas, we also landed in other places to transform realities through:

• Empowerment workshops for children and their families.
• Adaptation and provision of spaces for dignified employment as a source of economic sustenance.
• Construction of spaces for early childhood feeding and complementary education.
• Sports clubs with a total of 50 sessions and 83 hours of sport, benefiting 1,250 children in Buritaca, Magdalena.
• Provision of sports equipment to benefit 130 sportsmen and women in the Picacho neighborhood in Medellín.
• Provision of 3,502 school kits with the Ministry of Education in La Guajira.
• We provided 200 food baskets for senior citizens in Lima, Peru, through the Airport Partners - Jorge Chavez Airport alliance.

• We supported 5 families in their process of moving out of tenements in the center of Medellín and into independent living spaces.
• We took 23 children and teachers from the Paraíso de Colores Educational Centre to NASA to witness the launch of Operation Lucy.
• We took 44 children from Alianza Compromiso to see the sea in Cartagena.
• We fulfilled the dream of 27 children with terminal illnesses to live a unique experience in Santa Marta by getting to know the sea.
• We transported 95 cradles from the Fruto Bendito Foundation loaded with baby equipment to mothers in Medellín, Santa Marta and El Cabo de la Vela.

Breast cancer prevention

We inaugurated our annual breast cancer education and prevention campaign with the arrival of a new pink giant to our fleet of aircraft, with which we also launched the GO PINK strategy, a firm commitment as an airline and foundation to paint the skies pink with the messages of inclusion, diversity, equality, and breast cancer prevention.

Highlights from pink month:

• Together with Profamilia and a group of medical specialists, we set up a breast cancer education stand in the boarding lounges at José María Córdova airport, Rionegro. We had a direct impact on the lives of approximately 1,000 people.
• We conducted special activities on two flights in Colombia and two more in Peru, raising awareness of the importance of self-examination and mammography. We impacted 752 passengers.
• We celebrated the traditional 'Pink Day' with our Viva employees, who attended a talk with a health expert and had access to the mobile breast self-examination clinic, benefiting around 65 female employees.
• We transported 50 fabric prostheses and 9 more silicone prostheses to be given to women suffering from breast cancer in Bogotá, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta.

Merry Viva Christmas

We invited 320 children, members of different foundations, to experience a very lively Christmas with a musical event at the Pablo Tobón Uribe theatre in Medellín. Many of them, coming from rural areas of Cauca, Valle del Cauca, and Norte de Santander, travelled by plane for the first time to witness this great event based on the classic work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
In alliance with Antioquia Presente, Mujeres In and Dr. Amparo Aguirre, we made the Christmas celebration possible for 300 children and their families in Leticia, Amazonas.

Thanks to a generous donation of gifts from our partner Airbus and Viva collaborators, we were able to deliver 1,542 gifts to an equal number of children in Medellín, Bogotá, Maicao, Guarne, Rionegro and in the Tagual La Pó indigenous reservation in Segovia.