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 We distribute humanitarian aid to populations in displacement because of armed conflict and extreme poverty.
Colombia has one of the highest levels of displacement in the world: approximately 3,000,000 people. After our first visit to the province of Chocó in the northern Pacific area of the country, we were deeply touched by the living conditions of a large percentage of the Afro-Colombian population. Armed conflict between subversive armies in the area has left thousands without homes. Chocó is a department marked by hardship even in peacetime; 64% of its residents live in extreme poverty, one step away from absolute misery. 
| December 2004 - The distribution of the first 40 ft. Container, sent by a foundation in Sweden with 27,000 items of brand new cotton clothes for all sizes and genders, Wheel chairs, crutches and medical equipment, we worked with the government of Chocó to achieve the nationalization and distribution. | 
| April 2005 - With “Acción Social” of the Presidency and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, we distributed clothes and wheel chairs in Buenaventura and Chocó, sending part of the donation the Waunam Indians up the San Juan River. |  | June 2006 - Distribution of new clothes donated by the government of Taiwan for Chocó, the Pacific Coast and Buenaventura. Our volunteers made it possible for these donations to reach very far off corners of the country reached only by boat. These danger zones are rife with armed conflict. |  | February 2007 - Together with the National Agency of Prevention and Disaster Assistance, we received a container from a foundation in Sweden with 28,000 items of new clothes to be distributed to displaced families in different areas of the country where natural disasters took their toll. |  | June 2007 - The generosity of the employees of a renowned chain of Colombian restaurants, along with a national transport and airline company allowed us to distribute 512 care packages to the Indigenous communities in Chocó, where the children have recently been dying of hunger. |
Healing Colombia has distributed approximately 400.000 items of clothes, 40 wheel chairs and 20 walkers and crutches and 512 care packages; approximately $1,000,000 in humanitarian aid, attending a total of 100,300 people. 
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