#ForTheKids

GAME TIME FOUNDATION

Impacting & Inspiring children’s lives through sports.

Since 2014

Game Time Foundation has:

Towns visited

TEAMS visited
More than

Kids Helped

lbs of equipment recycled

Countries visited

2023-2022 Colombia Visits

Soeldad, Atlántico, Colombia June 2023
https://youtu.be/pWpuMRo4-cQ?si=X-gyRWJ7UOqIqOmZ
Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia June 2023
https://youtu.be/J0nMw43Y1xA?si=T58X1MfRFrU0KDgO
Campeche, Atlántico, Colombia June 2023
https://youtu.be/FruvwKUmKz4?si=3DTj29lIeMdcJ6O0
Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia January 2023
https://youtu.be/XLjckqtz3KU
Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia January 2023

Took a local kid’s baseball team to a Colombian Winter League Game 

https://youtu.be/w_UI64xlwPw
Campeche, Atlántico, Colombia January 2023

Celebrated GT’s 9th anniversary by reading to a group of children

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnyKobgr9Ee/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Lorica, Cordoba, Colombia December 2022 

Visited/Gave Donations to Baseball team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMwIg-T8jXQ
 Santa Rosa, Bolívar, Colombia June 2022 

Visited/Gave Donations to Baseball team

https://youtu.be/G8S07F9W5cU
Magangué, Bolívar, Colombia June 2022 

Visited/Gave Donations to Soccer team, with aliance with Fundacíon Quieres Ser un Ángel

https://youtu.be/jYOTDEireks
Magangué, Bolívar, Colombia June 2022

Alliance with Fundacíon Quieres Ser un Ángel and visited Asylum Our Lady of Candelaria 

https://youtu.be/Ho6oAcP-XW4

GTF x Boret Honduras
March 2022

For the first time Game Time Foundation helped a soccer team in Intibucá, Honduras thanks to an alliance with Boret Honduras. Children from a school’s soccer team were given cleats, socks, workout gear, soccer balls and a GTF pencil.

Video of donation 

https://youtu.be/vzh1kXIOFro

GAME TIME REDUCES by REUSING and RECYCLING

GAME TIME HAS A LOCAL IMPACT BY RECYCLING AND IT HAS A GLOBAL IMPACT BY REUSING & RECYCLING USED EQUIPMENT.

Where we have worked in Colombia

Game Time was started in 2014 to help kid athletes in Colombia. Our work has been done in Northern Colombia; in the Atlantico department/region where the main city Barranquilla is located.

Colombia

Game Time was started in 2014 to help kids through sports in the beautiful country of Colombia.

🇨🇴Colombia is the 4th largest country of South America. It has more than 48 million citizens. Its official language is Spanish. It’s situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru .It has borders in the Atlantic & Pacific Ocean. [- via: Wikipedia ]

Barranquilla

Colombia’s capital is Bogota. It has many major cities like Cali, Medellin, Catagena and Barranquilla.

Barranquilla, is located in Northern Colombia and it’s the capital of the Atlantico Department. It’s the 4th largest city in Colombia with a population of more than 1.2 million people since the 2017 census. The city is the epicenter for economic growth in its metropolitan area for municipalities like Soledad, Galapa, Malambo, and Puerto Colombia. • The city is home to one of the most important folk and cultural festivals of Colombia, the Carnival of Barranquilla, which was declared a National Cultural Heritage by the Congress of Colombia in 2001 and recognized by UNESCO in 2003. [- via: Wikipedia ]

 Departments

Game Time has helped 40 teams in 29 locations in the Atlántico, Bolivar, Magdalena, Sucre, Cordoba and Guajira Departments. 22 baseball teams, 8 soccer teams , 3 softball teams, 2 basketball teams have been assisted. As well as 1 school in Campeche was donated interactive educational game/ school supplies and at a  school in Sincelejo, 100 young boys and girls were donated Christmas presents.

All of these 6 departments are in Northern Colombia. GT always arrives in Barranquilla and from there either in private or public transportation goes to the different towns. Some towns are an hour, two hours, or three hours away from Barranquilla and the trip is done in one day. Some towns which are 4-5 hours away from Barranquilla have been done in different days.
Recognition

June 2017 the Colombian Embassasy in Washington D.C .

Awarded Nicole Fernandez, founder & president, of Game Time Foundation with “Los 22 Más.”

“Los 22 Más ” was given by the Colombian Embassy and 2 Colombian TV Networks- RCN & NTN24.  22 Colombians who are representing the country great in the US and in Colombia were given this recognition. Nicole was the youngest of the group and the only woman from the city of Barranquilla, Colombia to receive the award. She was chosen from 1,545 people who were voted in. The link to the video from the ceremony, is below and Game Time’s video starts in minute 12. ( video in Spanish)

Seen on

US TV Networks & Colombian TV Networks