Caring for Colombia is pleased to invite you to an exceptional concert given by the Parias Ensemble for the benefit of our Foundation:
Benefit Concert
Please join us on June 10th at 6pm at 425 Fifth Avenue (at 38th Street) in New York.
For more information on the Parias Ensemble: http://www.myspace.com/pariasensemble
To buy your ticket:
Caring for Colombia and Fundación Nacional Batuta are pleased to announce an alliance to promote and develop joint activities in the USA.
Fundación Nacional Batuta is the leading musical education organization in Colombia. It makes music more accessible and contributes to transforming the lives of many underprivileged children for the better. To date, Fundación Batuta has reached 40,000 children throughout Colombia. The children who benefitted from its programs have successfully put together 48 orchestras currently known nationally and internationally.
Batuta offers children and youth at risk (from 2 to 18 years old) and with no access to extracurricular activities different alternatives to learn music educational programs. Some of the music alternatives include:
Batuta’s participants, most of whom would not otherwise be able to play an instrument, currently collaborate with their peers in this artistic endeavour and have earned the self- confidence that comes from achieving a difficult result with the application of hard work and talent.
Please help Batuta bring music to more children in Colombia’s vulnerable regions by exploring sponsorship and mentoring opportunities with Caring for Colombia:
Rock for Caring for Colombia
During almost two hours, on April 16th, the students of the Lycée Français de New York (“LFNY”) rocked their schoolmates during a very successful performance.
Five bands played original songs in a Live Aid Concert given to the benefit of Caring for Colombia through the LFNY’s Finance Club. As pictures and videos of Colombian children were displayed in the background, the talented musicians gave all their energy and enthusiasm in a show of generosity and solidarity with the children of Colombia. The money raised will go towards micro-finance projects in Colombia.
Caring for Colombia is very grateful to the LFNY, its musicians and students, for their support.
Under the sight of the children of Cartagena
Colombia Rhythm
One World
Lucas on the bass
Guitar stars
Lucas and Adrien
Julien and Adrien
Juan Pablo Valencia, Medal Designer. Originally from Cali, Colombia, Juan Pablo has been living and working in New York City for the last 15 years. He studied jewelry and gemology at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), and metal sculpture and jewelry techniques at the Parsons School of Design.
Valérie Salacroux, Bracelet Designer. Former stylist for Prada, Miu Miu and Balenciaga, Valérie Salacroux has created her own brand of bracelets, sandals, clogs and handbag accessories.
Inspired by her experiences and observations gained while living on the Basque Coast, her collections evoke the great French classics. All her work is made in France, by small teams of craftsmen, and the quality is in the details, such as traditional saddler stitching and carefully chosen materials.
Price: 75 dollars for pick up in Manhattan. Available in various colors. Please contact us for shipping rates and information.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
New York Public Library, 6 pm
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
German Samper, one of the most important Colombian architects, will give a lecture on “Living Architecture”. He will present his lifetime work dedicated to shape architectural design, theories and social housing developments in Colombia.
For more information about Mr Samper, please visit his website: www.germansamper.com
If you are interested in attending the NY Library lecture, please contact us at contact@caringforcolombia.org
German Samper Gnecco, will also be honored on October 6th for his contribution to social housing in Colombia. The ceremony will take place at the Steinway Hall, on the occasion of the Irena Koblar concert (please see below).
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Steinway Hall, 8 pm
109 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Pianist Irena Koblar has earned her BM and MA degrees at the renown University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria in the class of Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov as well as the Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes College of Music, where she studied with pianist Jerome Rose. She had numerous solo recitals and has appeared with chamber as well as philharmonic orchestras throughout Europe and the US. She won several national and international competitions. In 2007, Irena Koblar released a Super Audio CD and DVD featuring works from Scarlatti, Beethoven and Brahms. In the next seasons, Miss Koblar will be performing in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She is currently based in New York City. For many years, Ms Koblar has been a great friend and supporter of our foundation and she was very interested and enthusiastic about the idea of playing a concert that would benefit Caring for Colombia.
On this occasion, Caring for Colombia will be honoring German Samper Gnecco with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication to architectural design and social housing developments in Colombia.
Roubini, el gurú de la economía, predice el futuro financiero de Colombia y el mundo
Septiembre 17 de 2009 (Caracol)
Nouriel Roubini estuvo reunido con un grupo de economistas y empresarios colombianos en Nueva York. Ahí estuvo con Diego Senior. Hablaron del futuro de la crisis financiera, sobre la economía Colombiana de cara al mundo y de una posible burbuja que se esta inflando en la economía global y que podría estallar.
Encontramos a Roubini hablándole a un selecto grupo de colombianos en Nueva York durante un encuentro de la organización Caring for Colombia, una ONG colombo estadounidense que colabora con familias afectadas por el conflicto armado.
¿Qué viene ahora con este fin de la crisis financiera global?
Con una recesión severa, estamos cerca al final la economía comienza a recuperarse. Hay tres escenarios: la recuperación robusta en forma de V, la mejoría anémica y mas lenta en forma de U e incluso todavía hay una probabilidad de una doble caída, en forma de W.
¿Cuál de esos es el más probable?
El escenario de la mitad de la recuperación anémica es el más probable, no habrá recuperación rápida. A pesar del riesgo de otra caída cercana, creo que es una amenaza pequeña hasta el momento.
¿Hay alguna otra burbuja a inflándose en algún lugar de los mercados mundiales?
Mi preocupación que debido a la recesión, manejar la política económica ha sido fácil. Los intereses están cercanos a cero en el mundo. Hay un muro de liquidad y crédito en el mundo. Estamos sembrando las semillas de la próxima burbuja de crédito y bienes si se nos sale de las manos y por eso estamos a riesgo de otra crisis en un par de años.
¿Qué consejo le puede dar en la post crisis a Colombia?
Durante la crisis a Colombia la afectaron la caída del comercio y bajas de los precios de los commodities y el flujo de capital. Pero lo bueno es la estabilidad del marco macroeconómico, baja inflación, su compromiso a la disciplina fiscal y a las reformas enfocadas al Mercado y apertura al comercio. Ahora el dinero regresara a los mercados crecientes, y con la estabilidad política en incremento Colombia, me siento optimista que con la continuación de la recuperación global se estarán presentando las condiciones para el crecimiento en Colombia y en otras partes de America Latina.
¿Qué va a pasar con el dólar?
Lo más posible es que el dólar va a seguir cayendo como una tendencia en general. A corto plazo porque los intereses bajos mantienen el intercambio barato. El riesgo es que, además de la caída controlada del dólar que hemos visto, EEUU tenga que lidiar con su problema de deuda implementando un impuesto en la inflación lo cual generaría una caída más agresiva y desorganizada del dólar y será algo muy peligroso.
Roubini: LatAm Got its Act Together
(LatinFinance) The larger economies in Latin America have firm fundamentals, according to Nouriel Roubini, faculty member at NYU’s Stern School of Business, who remains cautious on the global outlook. Roubini lists Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru as the LatAm nations committed to market friendly reform. “The fundamentals of these economies are relatively sound. They had financial crisis before, they got their act together, they cleaned up their financial system, they are committed to macro economic stability, low fiscal deficits, independent central banks, continued market oriented opening of trade and FDI and so on,” says Roubini. He notes a negative impact from lower commodity prices and slumping remittances, but is generally upbeat on the region. “Political stability matters a lot,” says the economist who earned the nickname Dr Doom for forecasting last year’s crisis. “On emerging markets, I would be more optimistic than I am about advanced economies,” he adds, however warning that EM must switch from exports to domestic growth drivers to offset external pressure. According to the economist, the recent global rally in financial markets is partly justified by fundamentals, easing risk aversion and the forward looking nature of asset prices. However, the price rise has been much faster than the underlying recovery and is only justified if there is a V-shaped bounce in the US. However, Roubini predicts a weaker, U-shaped recovery with a risk of a double dip in the US. This would prompt poor macro data and a weak outlook for 2010 earnings growth, as well as losses in the financial sector. “I see a risk of a correction down the line,” says the academic. “The global economy is barely recovering, it’s still on its knees, and if you take away the fiscal stimulus too soon, you may end up like Japan in 1998-2000, or US in 1937-1939,” says Roubini. He was speaking this week at an event in New York hosted by the Caring for Colombia charity.
Our thanks to www.latinfinance.com for allowing us to reproduce the article here.
On September 16th, Caring for Colombia organized an intimate event around Nouriel Roubini, the famous economist who correctly forecast the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2009.
Approximately 60 participants had the unique opportunity to hear Mr. Roubini’s views of the current economic outlook and also learned more about Caring for Colombia.
Latin Finance, RCN, la W and Caracol reported on the event (see below).
Caring for Colombia is very grateful to Nouriel Roubini, for his time and support.
We are very grateful for Dicken Castro’s design of our new logo. Mr. Castro is a Colombian pioneer in graphic design and has been a professor in a number of prestigious universities in Colombia.
For more on Dicken Castro, please read Wikipedia’s article about his life and work.
A flute concert for peace, Cartagena 2009
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