About Us

Antivirus Against Dropping Out Foundation is a non-profit organization that

Seeks to reduce the levels of student desertion in Colombia by implementing different strategies that allow finding possible alternative solutions to a severe problem: dropout rates of the universities. Considering education as a cross-cutting axis for social development and dropout rates as a problem that fosters inequality in access to opportunities, 2018 our Foundation arises from the need to accompany students in scenarios of academic, economic, and socioemotional vulnerabilities that affect the possibility of succeeding in their training process, working in favor of achieving a country with more education and consequently with more development.

Our

Founders

Carlos Vásquez Restrepo

Paulina Tamayo Mejía

Víctor Manuel Valencia Martínez

Luis Fernando González Urán

Andrea Jaramillo Ramírez

Laura Calle Escobar

León Felipe Hernández López

Aida Orduz Quijano

Our

Board of directors

Carlos Vásquez Restrepo President And Titular Legal Representative

Luis Fernando Sánchez HurtadoVice Presidents / Director and First Alternate Legal Representative

David Santiago Botero Rodríguez Second Alternate Legal Representative / Legal Coordinator

Víctor Manuel Valencia Martínez Deputy Director / Third Alternate Legal Representative

Luis Fernando González Urán

Our

STATUTORY AUDITOR

Orlando Gaviria Flórez

Our

Accountant

María Verónica Ortiz Rodríguez

About our team

Carlos Vásquez Restrepo

Presidente

Astrid Franco

Coordinadora Área Social

Luis Fernando Sánchez

Director

Karen González

Coordinadora Área de Tecnología y Datos

Víctor Manuel Valencia

Subdirector

David Santiago Botero

Coordinador Área Legal

Manuela Correa Quintero

Coordinadora de Comunicaciones

Luis Fernando González

Coordinador Área Administrativa y Financiera

Theory of Change



Identify vulnerable students and fully accompany them, through an ecosystem of strategies focused on academic, economic, and socio-emotional aspects for permanence.



Mission



Increase the graduation rates of students from careers and programs in technology areas, through strategies to promote retention and dropout prevention.



Vision



In 5 years we will have a national presence, in the 10 best universities in the country, where we will have reduced the dropout rate by 10 percentage points (from 50 to 40%).

In addition, we are going to be replicating a model that is a benchmark, whose success can be measured qualitatively and quantitatively.



Purpose



Build a prosperous, peaceful, harmonious, technological and competitive country, in which all young people have access to education and are good human beings,

with goals and empowered in their lives. And thanks to this, we will be able to overcome poverty and become a benchmark for development.



Values



At the Antivirus Against Drop Out Foundation we do our work collaboratively, with passion, integrity, autonomy, empathy, commitment and camaraderie. We are supportive and innovative and have a great dedication to service.



Target Audience



We work with students of IT careers and Middle and Post-secondary Education programs. We focus our intervention on students who are vulnerable to dropping out.



Priorities



  • Consolidate a model with processes for identifying vulnerabilities, intervention and result indicators.
  • Explore intervention models from schools to contribute to reducing dropout in higher education.
  • Meet and involve other actors in the work for permanence (Principals, Deans, MEN, Companies, among others).
  • Help to reduce dropout rates at other universities and programs to refine our model and generate income that contributes to the sustainability of the Antivirus Foundation.