Fundación Carlos Slim seeks contributing to people’s comprehensive development through human development programs fostering the impulse of becoming better persons and enrichen their family, labor and community environments, committed to collaborate in Mexico’s progress.

This partnership for Mexico’s improvement “Asociación de Superación por México”, established in 1980, contributes to the comprehensive growth of people, through a human development program based on:

1) Consistent improvement.

2) Compete against oneself.

3) Balanced improvement considering the 8 aspects of an individual: physical, affective, social, financial, aesthetic, intellectual, moral and spiritual.

The program reinforces and fosters self-esteem, life and people appreciation, and people’s discerning capacity.

Besides Mexico, the program is currently present in 18 countries of the Americas.

The Social Welfare (Bienestar Social) program aims to contribute to the comprehensive human development of workers, their family and their community, by conducting actions on Training, Health, Culture and Recreation with the purpose of developing citizens who are responsible for their own growth, the growth of their families and the growth of society.

In Alliance with Telmex Telcel Foundation since 2003, Best Buddies Mexico promotes the inclusion and participation in society of people with intellectual disabilities, through the following programs: Amistades (Friends), Embajadores (Ambassadors) and Empleos (Jobs), lessening their social, physical and financial isolation, while presenting an option of personal development to all the people involved in these programs: people with intellectual disabilities and their families, young senior high-school and university students, institutions, companies and the community itself.