QUIENES SOMOS – CORPORACIÓN CONSTRUCTORS OF PEACE INTERNATIONAL

ABOUT US

The Constructors of Peace International Corporation - NGO, will be a cooperation body for the integral development and improvement of the quality of life of people, families, organizations, communities at risk of vulnerability and / or poverty, linked and / or directly affected or indirectly by the different social scourges derived from social inequality and / or the internal Colombian conflict such as: peasants, Afro-Colombians, indigenous people, displaced people, demobilized, men and women heads of families, pregnant and lactating women, boys and girls, young people, people with disabilities, older adults, people deprived of liberty. "

Our work with children and young people of both genders is carried out using the sport "soccer" as a tool for prevention and healthy coexistence, thus contributing to the PEACE of Colombia.

It is also constituted as an organization that defends Human Rights.

MISSION

VISION

We are a Non-Profit Entity, which develops and executes social projects aimed at the children and youth population and their family nucleus from low socioeconomic strata (0, 1 y 2) in possible risk of vulnerability located in Bogotá and other municipalities of Colombia, in order to be actors of prevention and strengthening of the social fabric, through educational, sports and cultural programs.

In the year 2025, be the corporation whose model is positioned as the BEST, and contributes nationally and internationally to developing social prevention and empowerment programs that benefit children, youth and their families, improving their social environment.

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OUR HISTORY

The Constructors Of Peace International Corporation - NGO (Cop International) and its Cop Colombia International Soccer Team, began as an idea 20 years ago, when its creator, Gerson Andrés Flórez Pérez, began his solidarity work for peace, making known internationally the situation of vulnerability of children and young people within the armed conflict in Colombia, but it is from 2007, when it materializes and the action begins, complying with the rigorous parameters as a legally constituted organization.

His work finally echoes in the framework of the world peace conference, "The Hague appeal for peace" (1.998), when Gerson Andrés (12 years old, Youth Prize for Peace and Tolerance of the UN-1999 and Postulate to the Nobel Peace Prize for Parliamentarians of Norway - 2,000), made a great impression for his work in favor of the abolition of anti-personnel mines in Colombia and the rejection of the forced recruitment of children and young adolescents (CYA), in the ranks of illegal armed groups.

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Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1985, Gerson Andrés Flórez Pérez was marked as millions of children and young people in his country for what he described as "an endless and absurd war, bequeathed by several generations and for more than fifty years."
In 1997, her essay "Peacebuilders" marked not only his future as a symbol of human rights movements, but also what eventually became a great movement of Boys and Girls for Peace.
In 1998 he was invited to The Hague Appeal for Peace in The Hague (Netherlands) where he was received by the well-known human rights activist Cora Weis, Queen Noor of Jordan and Jody Williams Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.
Gerson was passing through prestigious universities in Norway, Canada and the United Kingdom, invited to speak on the situation in his country and especially on antipersonnel mines, one of them the London School of Economics in London.
His song Constructors of Peace was set to music by the famous Norwegian singer-songwriter Stig Van Eijk and had the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through friend Gert Danielsen.
Nominated twice for the National Peace Prize, the King Baudouin Prize of Belgium, the University Peace Prize in Norway.
Winner of one of the Global Awards for Peace and Tolerance delivered at the UN headquarters in New York and nominated by congressmen from Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.