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The City Council of Cartagena, through the Department of Social Services and Social Mediation, has signed collaboration agreements with seven Cartagena NGOs for the financing of International Cooperation projects in countries included in the report of the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) as Low Human Development Index countries, according to the 2015 classification.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator of the average achievements in the fundamental dimensions of human development, such as having a long and healthy life, acquiring knowledge and enjoying a decent standard of living.

€ 80,000 has been earmarked for the implementation of seven projects on the African continent in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Madagascar. Are in the bottom of the UNDP rankings each year and are among the most disadvantaged among the 187 assessed countries.

The Councilor for Social Services, Carmen Martín del Amor, stressed that "it is a matter of putting our grain of sand to make life a little easier for people living in very poor countries, because this money is going to cover the basic needs.

Specifically to build an orphanage, mills to grind grain, supply of drinking water or a bus so children can go to school.

The subsidized Non-Governmental Development Organizations are: San Pedro Shop Asylum Foundation, Solidarity, Education and Development (SED), FADE Foundation (Aid, Development and Education), Manos Unidas Campaign against Hunger;

Proclade Foundation;

Fundación Cepaim-Integral Action with Migrants and Baobab Action ONGD.

From 1994 to the present, aid has been continuously allocated from the City of Cartagena through the Department of Social Services to projects of international cooperation for development, with the aim of supporting, channeling and promote the actions that are carried out at the municipal level In this area by the NGDOs of the municipality.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena