Programs
One path out of crisis, four programs along it
Relief that opens the door. Training that builds a future. Community that holds it together. Here’s exactly what your giving funds.
- fed weekly at SALA
- ~100
- fed weekly at SALA
- weekly programs launched
- Feb 2024
- weekly programs launched
- programs, one path
- 4
- programs, one path
- of gifts reach the field
- 100%
- of gifts reach the field
Weekly meals · community table
TIKVA SALA
Every week, up to 100 women and children share a hot, nutritious meal — served at a table, with names learned and remembered. SALA means “living room”: it’s hospitality, not a hand-out line.
A reliable meal is the single fastest way to stabilize a family in crisis — and the table is where every other TIKVA program begins. Women hear about THRIVE training here; kids join tutoring here; trust is built here.
$25/month provides weekly meals for a mother and her children
Vocational training · tutoring
TIKVA THRIVE
Sewing and artisan training that equips women with market-ready skills — cutting, machine work, finishing — plus academic tutoring that strengthens children in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Displacement erases livelihoods. Skills rebuild them. A woman who can earn daily income changes her family’s entire trajectory — and a child who keeps up in school doesn’t end up working traffic lights.
$50/month sponsors a woman through job training
Meeting people where they are
TIKVA OUTREACH
TIKVA goes to the streets and hillside barrios — building relationships with women and children who would never find their way to a program on their own.
The most vulnerable families are the least likely to walk through a door. So we go to theirs. Outreach is how every María and Valentina first hears that a table is waiting.
$10/month helps reach a neighborhood family
Short-term trips · March & December
TIKVA MISSIONS
Twice a year, teams come to Medellín to serve alongside TIKVA — cooking, teaching, building, and sitting at the table with the families we serve.
Mission teams multiply the work for a week and carry the story home for a lifetime. Many of TIKVA’s most committed monthly partners came on a trip first.
Join or fund a trip — every March & December
Coming soon
The TIKVA Care Shelter
The missing piece: a safe residence for 15 mothers and their children, with a 4-month program from stabilization to independence. It’s the program our families need most — and the one only steady monthly partners can unlock.