Martin Luther King Day is a national holiday in the United States held on the third Monday of January. It celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights leader. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial separation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States.
His most famous speech was the "I Have A Dream" speech. He was an advocate of non-violent protest and became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated in 1968. In 1968, shortly after Martin Luther King died, a campaign was started for his birthday to become a holiday to honor him. Martin Luther King Day was first observed in 1986, although it was not observed in all states until the year 2000.
To commemorate Martin Luther King, VisitAruba.com will pay special attention to the various charitable, social welfare, health and animal care foundations in Aruba.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others.
-Martin Luther King - Strength in Love (1963)
Please find a list of the different foundations on Aruba.
Please note: we would like to point out that this list is not exhaustive.
Animals
The mission of the Aruba Animal Shelter Foundation is to give the dogs and cats of Aruba a better life. The Shelter can place 16 adult dogs and 15 adult cats, 15 puppies and 5 kittens.
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Animal Rights Aruba (A.R.A) is a non-profit Animal Welfare Organization that aims to protect all fauna, flora, and marine life on and around the island of Aruba. As well the great name of our island towards our tourism.
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Fundacion Salba Nos Burico is a non profit organisation that attends to mistreated, neglected, sick or roaming donkeys. They have more than 100 donkeys in their care at this moment. Another 100 are still roaming, these donkeys will be taken in their care in the near future.
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Children/youth
The Asociacion Trabao di Hubentud na Aruba, A.T.H.A., is an association for youth welfare work on Aruba and was founded on May 20 1986. A.T.H.A. aims to create better facilities, individual opportunities and development for the Arubian youth in the age of 0 - to 21 years, through support, development and stimulation of activities.
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Casa Cuna Progreso foundation is a children’s home society and was founded on the 4th of April 1957. (The foundation has an important place within the Aruban Community) Children between 0-6 years old, residing in Aruba and that are subject to the inclusion criteria of Casa Cuna Progreso are cared for and supervised. The assistance that Casa Cuna Progreso offers focuses merely on children who are in a difficult parenting situation.
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The Clown Doctors make a child master of a situation at a time when it is clearly not in charge. Everything is possible and nothing is wrong, depending on what the child in question indicates. The Clown Doctors talk, laugh, play and dance with the children. But they are also there for a quiet moment of reading or just holding a tiny little hand.
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Fundacion Guia Mi is a foundation who has custody of minors and family custody.
Another part of Fundacion Guia Mi is Centro Famia di Criansa Arubano, the organization for foster families. They recruit new foster families, prepare families on their tasks, give courses to the families, and guide the foster families.
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The goal of this foundation is to contribute to the prevention of child abuse and neglect in all its forms, and of child sexual abuse in particular. They focus intensify its contribution to the prevention of child abuse and neglect by offering continuous new knowledge and insight to all involved in the field of child abuse and neglect, including the general public.
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The Aruban Youth Telephone Line, Telefon Pa Hubentud, was launched as an independent charity, with its distinctive telephone number '131' and logo, aimed at children and youngsters from 8-18 years old and provides its service from 14.00 hours to 18.00 hours, 365 days a year. Telefon Pa Hubentud is a low threshold form of providing assistance to youngsters who at a particular moment are experiencing a problem.
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Health
The Aruba Heart Foundation is a volunteer-based health organization, which is nonprofit making and non-governmental and thoroughly concerned with the promotion of health well-being.
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The Blood Bank Foundation of Aruba has been providing its services since 1986. During the Blood Bank history it has aspired to continuously improve its blood products.
The Blood Bank is yearly certified by Sanquin which is the European Blood Bank Certification Organization that works according to ISO standards.
Aruba is one of the few Islands in the Caribbean that has a blood bank that works according to these high standards and in this way offer safe high quality blood products.
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The assistance provided by the FAVI is geared towards integrating the visually impaired in our society. Our goal is to help these people rediscover their independence and freedom.
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The Aruba Autism Foundation, called "Fundacion Autismo Aruba" is one of the few organizations on the island that works specifically for the interest of people with autism, their families and caretakers. Their mission is to look after the needs of people with autism and those who are connected to autism in either a personal or professional way.
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Foundation Alzheimer Aruba is a non-profit organization helping and educating the community on Aruba about Alzheimer's disease.
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The Red Cross of Aruba was established on October 31, 1957. Red Cross Aruba is affiliated with the Netherlands Red Cross, and therefore, also the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent. The main task of the Red Cross is to provide humanitarian assistance wherever needed.
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People
SABA was founded in 1972 as a retirement home. SABA has three homes under its management. SABA is Aruba's largest provider of care for destitute elderly. Through a recognized quality system SABA tries to continuous improve the care.
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The foundation's purpose is to organize and carry out social, cultural, educational, and sports activities in the districts and to maintain or raise the level of educational development. FDEC contributes to the integration of our special people by teaching them and by inviting them to our activities, where they are given the opportunity to dance on stage. The foundation also works with customers from FAVI (visually challenged people) and other organizations.
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The goal of the Foundation is: "to better the position of the woman on Aruba, to
fight violence in the family, especially against women, and render help in such situations". The Foundation wants to achieve this goal in different ways: by raising awareness, networking for women, promoting new laws and/or changing existing laws; but also by having a shelter for battered women.
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Fundacion Pa Nos Muchanan, is an organization for child educators, for children between the ages of 0-12 years. Educators are everyone who is concerned with the upbringing of children. You may be a parent, a teacher, a family member, or a child care giver.
Our goal is to improve the care, guidance and education of children from 0 - 12 years, by giving support to educators at home, child care centers or schools.
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