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Entrega de una donación presidencial a fundaciones en Leticia, Amazonas, con niños, jóvenes y adultos mayores
Imagen alusiva a la entrega del tercer sueldo presidencial a dos fundaciones del Amazonas en Leticia. · Imagen generada para EPM

De La Espriella Gives October Salary to Two Amazon Foundations

President Abelardo De La Espriella handed over his October salary in Leticia, just over $41 million pesos split between Fundación Aljaba and Actuemos, which…

--- The context --- President Abelardo De La Espriella has again kept his campaign promise to hand his salary to organizations working for social causes. This time, the October pay went to two foundations in Amazonas that support children, young people and older adults in their communities. --- The facts --- The handover took place this Thursday in Leticia, after a working session on the National Development Plan. The president announced he would split just over $41 million pesos of his salary between the two organizations, and each foundation received $20.521.548. One beneficiary was Fundación Aljaba, which has spent 26 years working with children, teenagers and young people living in difficult conditions, through programs that support their education and widen their opportunities. The other was the Fundación para la Gestión y el Desarrollo Social (Actuemos), which works with older adults in Amazonas. The Leticia handover is his third donation since taking office. In September he gave $31 million pesos to two geriatric homes in Quimbaya, Quindío, covering his 24 days of August salary. On October 3, in Montería, Córdoba, he gave another $41 million pesos to 92 students with strong Pruebas Saber 11 results and to women facing breast cancer. --- The positions --- During the meeting, a representative of Actuemos thanked him for the contribution and said the help also amounts to support for the region's grandparents. De La Espriella explained that he will donate his salary every month throughout his four years in government, and said his wife, Ana Lucía Pineda, seeks out the foundations and chooses the recipients. --- What remains unknown --- It has not been detailed which specific programs each foundation will fund with the money or on what timeline. The coming destinations are also unknown, although he repeated that the monthly donations will continue. --- Unanswered questions --- Which community programs will Fundación Aljaba fund with the $20.521.548 it received in Leticia? How will Actuemos use its share on behalf of older adults in Amazonas? Which region of the country will receive the next monthly donation of the presidential salary? --- EPM analysis --- The route of the three donations shows territorial reach: Quimbaya, Montería and now Leticia, with beneficiaries ranging from older adults to students and Amazonian children. A campaign promise thus becomes a monthly practice visible in each region. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the significance of this third donation lies in its consistency and its destination: two foundations already working in Amazonas with children, young people and older adults each receive $20.521.548, under a public commitment to repeat the gesture every month throughout the four years of government. Its real measure will be the concrete use each organization makes of the resources and whether the sequence keeps reaching, as it has so far, social causes in different regions of the country.
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