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The Muzo Foundation, as part of the development of the Corporate Social Responsibility of the mining extraction of emeralds, has worked over different programs generated and aimed to benefit and create sustainable progressin the region, caring for the most vulnerable populations and meeting needs present in different objectives focused on education, culture, the environment, recreation, health, among others.
As a result of this commitment, on July 5th, 2015, El Mirador de los Abuelos was born, a community canteen that seeks to reduce the population of elders who suffer from hunger and has benefited more than 400 “grandparents” in the region.
The beneficiaries are mainly miners who arrived in the Muzo and Quípama areas around the 1970s and 1980s, who, through the rudimentary exploitation of emeralds predominant in the west of Boyacá, sought to get rich or “enguacarse” by finding a precious stone. This informality left as a result inequality in the region and several miners in conditions of poverty or vulnerability, without an economic income for their retirement, specially without food stability.
Although El Mirador De Los Abuelos had to close its doors during the health emergency decreed by the National Government with the arrival of Covid-19, this social program continued to work to ensure food security for vulnerable elders. Due to mobility limitations, hundreds of food baskets were delivered in their houses, brought directly to each family that included food and toiletries. Benefiting even people who were not enrolled in the program.
After a year and seven months, El Mirador De Los Abuelos reopened its doors on October 16th, 2021, and in just three months, a total of 17,541 lunches were delivered, obtaining an average daily attendance of 220 older adults. Since that date, it was guaranteed registered grandparents the delivery of a free, balanced, nutritious lunch that is sometimes accompanied by medical, nutritional, artistic, sports or productive activities.
During this 2022, it will be seven years since the beginning of the program and there have been thousands of lunches and assistance delivered to this vulnerable population. It is expected that by the end of the year, the objective set by the Muzo Foundation of delivering “close to 72,000 lunches” will be met and work will continue to strengthen this social project, according to its director, Maria Luisa Durrance.
