The Balms Foundation for Children is a non profit organization dedicated to provide financial aid and assistance to children in Peru and Colombia. Our high-priority objective is to promote the development of activities for the protection of children's rights, in terms of the "Convention on the Rights of the Child" signed by the United Nations at the Hague in 1993, and especially the right of: "growing up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, affection, security and child-specific bases, love and understanding, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality" (Convention of the Boy's Rights, UN, November 20 1989).
Our second high-priority is to realize activities related with the principles and objectives specified in the Law 23/1998 on International Co-operation for Development, dated 7 July (B.O.E. 08.07.1998).
With these objectives the following activities are carried out: