Amancio Ortega Foundation
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The Amancio Ortega Foundation is a non-profit organization created in 2001 by Amancio Ortega and based in the province of A Coruña, in Arteixo. Its activities include a scholarship program for 400 students to study for a year in Canada and the United States.[1]
The Amancio Ortega Foundation was established in 2001, on the initiative of Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega in Arteixo. The mission defined in its general objectives is to promote actions that facilitate equal opportunities for citizens. To this end, the foundation develops transversal actions in different areas, combining collaborations or donations to social institutions of recognized trajectory such as Caritas[2] or the Spanish public health system,[3] together with a scholarship program that has facilitated studies in Canada and the United States to 500 students in the course of 2016.[4]
The foundation's vision is structured within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the SDGs for the fight against poverty and hunger, the SDGs for the promotion of health, well-being, education, innovation and alliances between social actors. Thus, its bylaws state as its founding purpose: "The purpose of the Amancio Ortega Foundation is to promote, foster, develop, execute and finance activities that contribute to the dissemination and extension of education, social and welfare action, as well as training and learning that contribute to the advancement of the fundamental aspects of an integral society".
The foundation's board of trustees, chaired since its creation in 2001 by Amancio Ortega, is made up of Flora Pérez Marcote, José Arnau Sierra, Marta Ortega Pérez, Pablo Isla Álvarez de Tejera, Roberto Cibeira Moreiras and Antonio Abril Abadín.[5]