Source of Hope Supports JUANFE

Stephen Robert is a retired financial executive who led Oppenheimer Group, Inc., and has worked as an investment banker in numerous capacities. Fully involved in philanthropy, Stephen K. Robert co-founded the Source of Hope Foundation, which provides assistants to nonprofits worldwide, including the Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation (JUANFE) in Columbia.

The Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation has been supported by Source of Hope for eleven years. JUANFE was formed to meet the need for hundreds of young moms to receive education and employment training. This is the foundation's primary goal. JUANFE provides early medical treatment to children and mothers, which has resulted in lower infant mortality rates and the prevention of death due to hunger and sickness. Babies delivered with the program's assistance also receive follow-up care in their first few months of life.

Catalina Escobar is the Colombian who founded JUANFE. Catalina Escobar's 16-month-old son died in a car accident in 2000. She had been working with young, low-income moms in her Colombian home, so she transformed her grief into a mission to assist the women in breaking free from the poverty cycle that ravages Cartagena City in Columbia. To accomplish this goal, she founded JUANFE.