CIREC is a Colombian non-profit foundation, which invests its effort in comprehensive rehabilitation of people with physical disabilities, particularly in muscle-skeleton, neurological and degenerative conditions.

We operate as a corporation guided by social vision: to heal, physically, emotionally, and spiritually our patients and their families. We do this through four missionary units, which are self-sustainable and allow us to reinvest our surplus in favor of the population with disabilities in Colombia.

We standout among health-care institutions thanks to our comprehensive rehabilitation. From A to Z in just one place!

The foundation generates the greatest surplus since it’s foundation in 1976.                                                                                                                                                                                          

SOLIDDA Group initiates a rescue-plan for the foundation.

For the first time CIREC face a financial and operative crisis due to bad management.

CIREC is re-certified in quality with the ISO 9001, a norm that establishes the requirements for Quality Management Systems.

CIREC foundation receives the ISO 9001 certification, the most prestigious and used norm throughout the world, focused in customer satisfactions and the organization’s capacity to provide products & services, fulfilling the highest quality standards.

CIREC supports the government in planning and carrying-out the World Action Seminary against land-mines. On the other hand, we acquired high-tech devices and equipment, upgrading our CADCAM service and Gait Laboratory.

CIREC includes in “Sembrarte” environment programs, experimental activities, and inclusive scuba-diving. Additionally, at the end of this year we renew or Orthotics & Prosthetics production plant and increased installation capacity to receive the demand our services.

Some of our “Semilla” groups are provided with tools, materials, elements, equipment for wheelchair repair. The “Juan Camina” centers are created. During this year institutional alliances were established with universities, for education & research programs, upgrading Orthotics & Prosthetics in academies. We also work along ICONTEC for the approval of technical norms for Colombia.

CIREC begins to developing entrepreneurial projects, aimed at the generation of resources within the vulnerable population with disabilities. Some “Semilla” groups are provided with sewing machines for start-up projects.

Colombia’s Health-Care Department approves all of CIREC’s rehabilitation services, certifying CIREC as Heath Provider Institution.

We develop and give courses in accounting, saving, and credit for the members of our “Semilla” groups. Working along the government and international allies, CIREC also carries out an impactful work supporting and developing programs for hundreds of land-mine victims in Colombia.

We organize courses and workshops for the health-care staff in our “Semillas de Esperanza” groups, supporting Community Based Rehabilitation.

CIREC Foundation consolidates itself as pioneer institution in Community Based Rehab (CBR, implementing this methodology on a national scale with the “Semillas de Esperanza” (Seeds of Hope) groups.

CIREC creates the “Premio Estrella de la Esperanza” (Star of Hope Award) with the objective of highlighting the work of leaders with disabilities in Colombia, and how they overcame obstacles and play significant roles in society. Additionally, CIREC gave its first courses in adaption and repair of wheelchairs and orthopedic devices.

Colombia went through the terrible earthquake in Armenia (the Coffee Region). Under this circumstance, CIREC decides to begin rural work with and along communities.

We opened our Hydrotherapy Service two highly-engineered pools. They consolidate us as pioneers in this type of therapy in Colombia

CIREC is working together with Social Security to include prostheses as an integral rehabilitation element, and it also worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the rehabilitation department was created in the three main prisons in Bogotá.

CIREC leads care and rehabilitation programs for victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. We signed for the first time an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to serve the entire population victim of antipersonnel mines.

New product lines are launched such as the soft line and mobility aids, and for the first time we open our CIREC home, a warm place where we host, voluntarily or at a very low cost, our patients who travel from other regions to receive long-term medical treatment.

CIREC Foundation inaugurates the first production plant in its facilities, which made us pioneers in the development of prostheses, orthoses and other mobility elements.

Being members of the Advisory Committee, CIREC becomes for the government a benchmark entity in comprehensive rehabilitation.

Colombia suffered the Armero tragedy, a natural disaster resulting from the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano. Due to the catastrophe, CIREC cared for the amputees with the support of the Swedish government, who donated the necessary mobility devices and supported the rehabilitation processes.

In our beginnings, we worked in the basements of the Santa Clara de Asís church. Each year the World Health Organization awarded us two scholarships for technical training in the United States.

Given the insufficient coverage of the State to respond to the needs of the population with disabilities, CIREC begins to provide care to users with low economic resources who, when presenting injuries and diseases of the locomotor system, required surgical procedures, providing them with the implements for their interventions such as hip implants, plates, prostheses, mobility aids, among others.

Under the Constitution Act, our organization is consolidated with the name Fundación Pro Cirugía Reconstructiva - CIREC.