The INTI Foundation was created in October 2014 from the desire that each of its founders had to help burn survivors and their desire to work on burn prevention processes. Each of these women has suffered directly or indirectly from this scourge. Two of them suffered burns that profoundly transformed their lives and completely changed their optics and worldview. The third is a renowned plastic surgeon that has dedicated much of her professional career to the care of burn survivors.

Thanks to the donations we have received and the support of several people and institutions, we have been able to help burn survivors by offering them reconstructive surgeries, psychological therapy, nutritional support, and travel assistance to attend medical treatments.

We have also succeeded in sealing two important international partnerships that have marked and guided our path. One with the Shriners Hospitals for Children (a children's hospital specializing in management of burn patients in the U.S. and an international authority on the creation of treatment protocols for burn patients) through which Colombian children under the age of 18 have the opportunity to travel to the United States to receive comprehensive and free medical treatment.

We also have a partnership with the Michou and Mau Foundation for burned children in Mexico (this foundation has more than 20 years of experience in the treatment and prevention of burns throughout the Mexican territory) with whom we have been working hand in hand to develop prevention programs and protocols.

In Colombia, the INTI Foundation sealed a partnership with Fundación Proyecto Unión to carry out the construction of the INTI´s Burn Unit in an area called Centro de Vida Los Angeles at the Jaime Duque´s Park.

Founders

3 women, one cause

Jennifer Gaona

Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive surgeon from the “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana” in Colombia. Her interest for burn survivors started while rotating at UCLA Hospital’s burn unit in Los Angeles. After completing her specialization in Colombia, she started working at the Hospital Simon Bolivar in its burn unit, where she was in charge of burnt patients.
That same interest of offering a better management to patients with needs of cutaneous coverage, led her to develop a way to create skin through cell cultures. Together with two other plastic surgeons Keraderm was founded, a lab of cellular cultures that provide skin coverage to patients with wounds of any etiology.

Adriana Liévano

When Adriana was 14 years old, she suffered an accident at home with an alcohol stove. This accident left her with first, second, and third degree burns in different parts of her body. She had to face a long process of physical and psychological rehabilitation. Since her teenage years, Adriana felt a profound desire and compromise to help other people who had suffered burns and who need the emotional support that she had throughout her recovery process.

María Luisa Flores

She studied Interior Design in Caracas and has worked as an actress, model, and presenter for more than 20 years in countries such as Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, United States and Venezuela.
She has worked with directors such as Zack Snyder, Lana Wachowski, Luis Mandoki and Fina Torres.
She was a tv host for Sun Channel and as an actress she has worked for Telemundo, HBO Latam, Netflix, Caracol and RCN. Gastronomic entrepreneur, creator of Malú Restaurante and specialist in Mediterranean cuisine. Following an accident in which she suffered burns in 2010, she decided to create the Inti Foundation of which she is one of its Founders and the Director of Public Relations.

Our mission

Our mission is to provide support, medical assistance and psychological therapy to burn survivors and their families. By doing this, they will have access to a dignified rehabilitation and recovery process, while facilitating their reintegration into society.

Our vision

To be recognized by 2030 as the nation's leading foundation that comprehensively rehabilitates, supports, and counsels burn survivors.

Our mission

Our mission is to provide support, medical assistance and psychological therapy to burn survivors and their families. By doing this, they will have access to a dignified rehabilitation and recovery process, while facilitating their reintegration into society.

Our vision

To be recognized by 2030 as the nation's leading foundation that comprehensively rehabilitates, supports, and counsels burn survivors.