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Encyclopedia > Formula Smiles Foundation

Formula Smiles Foundation is a charity for children in Colombia founded by Connie Freydell and Juan Pablo Montoya. Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán (born September 20, 1975) is a Colombian Formula One motor racing driver. ...

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Mission

The mission statement is as follows: The Formula Smiles Foundation wants to improve the quality of life of the children of Colombia throughout sports, but above all, it wants to give an opportunity for them to smile.


Programs

  • Education + Sport = The Best Formula, a programme focused on promoting the sports culture on Colombian public schools, so that youngsters that are not taking advantage of sports because of lack of facilities, have the opportunity to practice them.
  • One Smiles, visits to hospitalised children to take their minds of their troubles.
  • Échele Cabeza al casco de Juan Pablo Montoya, a helmet design competition for children with VIP visits to Formula One races for children.

Échele Cabeza al casco de Juan Pablo Montoya (Design Juan Pablo Montoyas helmet) is a yearly competition since 2002, held by Formula Smiles Foundation that gives opportunity to colombian children to design a helmet paint job for Formula One driver, Juan Pablo Montoya. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Events

The foundation raises money with several events such as Race of Stars, a kart race with celebrities on a street circuit located in the Historic Center of the city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Other events to raise money include a golf tournament. A kart racer takes a turn on an indoor track Kart racing (as the word is so spelled by enthusiasts) or karting is a variant of open-wheeler motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. ... For other places of the same name, see Cartagena Bocagrande Cartagena San Pedro Square,Old City Cartagena Cartagena, Colombia, also known as Cartagena de Indias, is a large seaport on the north coast of Colombia. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs. ...


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Together with his wife Conny Freydell,a native of Medellín, Colombia, Juan founded the Formula Smiles Foundation as part of his duties of ONU good will embassador which has as main aim to help children in popular neighbors building adequations for the practice of sports.
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Drivers from mainly Formula One and IRL attend in the hopes of raising money for children in poor neighborhoods, racing in an aduquated street course in the historic Center of the city of Cartagena de Indias which features high levels of humidity and temperature making it a tough driving exercise.
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