Fundación Azteca is a Mexican

Mexico

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 non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

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 that promotes social responsibility founded in 1997 and owned by Grupo Salinas

Grupo Salinas

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It attempts to match social needs with organizations or individual willing to commit to satisfy them. Its Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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 (CEO) is Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León...

, former cabinet member during the Presidency

President of Mexico

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 of Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León is a Mexican economist and politician. He served as President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted seventy year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

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Fundación Azteca has organized education, health, environment and sports programs. I has also collaborated with other organizations, private companies and individuals as a medium of awareness of their projects.

This organization is registered with manosalaobra.org, a registry of more than 450 non-profit social organizations. Fundación Azteca has awarded 12,900 scholarships for low-income secondary

Secondary education

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 and high school

High school

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 students through its educational project Plantel Azteca.

Juguetón

More than 13 million toys have also be given to children through the annual Juguetón ("Toy marathon").

A Quien Corresponda

The TV Azteca show A Quien Corresponda

A quien corresponda

A quien corresponda is an Argentine novel, written by Martín Caparrós. It was first published in 2008. The book is a combination of anecdotes, stories, and situations recalled by the protagonist, Carlos "el Gallego", in order to remember his partner, who was assassinated by the Argentinian...

("To Whom It May concern") its part of the effort by Fundación Azteca of assistance to the community.

Rompiendo el Silencio

The campaign Rompiendo el Silencio ("Breaking the silence") has assisted more than 300 children by providing them with hearing aid

Hearing aid

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s and costly cochlear implant

Cochlear implant

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s throughout the country.

Awards

• Vienna Civil Society Award by the United Nations
  United Nations
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   for its efforts in the prevention of drug use with the campaign Vive Sin Drogas.

External links

• Vienna Civil Society Award by the United Nations
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  , presented by Kofi Annan
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• Official site of manosalaobra.org