I am Bielka Vega, an architect by profession and a woman who, after going through a very serious health crisis in which I came close to losing my life, began to see life differently.
That experience made me stop, live more fully in the present and, above all, ask myself what my true purpose was.
When I looked deep within myself, I discovered something that had always been there: my desire to serve, to help and to do good, especially for the most vulnerable children.
For a long time, I dreamed of becoming a mother. And when life led me down a different path, I understood that perhaps I could give the love I carried within me in another way: by becoming a source of love, care and protection for many children.
Then I understood that perhaps God had given me a second chance not only to live, but also to discover what to live for.
That is how Fundación Niños del Sol was born.
It was not born from pity.It was born from love.
It was born from the desire to create a place where a child who has known abandonment, pain or vulnerability can find safety, affection, education and, above all, a new opportunity.
I want every child who comes to us to feel that his past does not determine who he will become. That someone believes in him. That someone is willing to walk beside him and not let go of his hand.
Because I learned something that changed my life: when you help a child stand up again, something inside you rises too.
Fundación Niños del Sol is my way of transforming a difficult experience in my life into a purpose.
It is a promise: to work so that the children who become part of it are not defined by the circumstances into which they were born, but by everything they can still become.
If life gave me a second chance, I want to devote part of mine to helping other children receive theirs.
Because changing a child's story does not always mean giving him the world.
Sometimes it simply means being there, listening, reaching out a hand… and not letting go.
That is the purpose of Fundación Niños del Sol.