About us

In 2005 the London Supply Cup was born to benefit different charitable commitments. On that occasion, the proceeds went to the Peluffo Giguens Foundation, the same is dedicated to children's oncology in Uruguay. At that time, the London Supply Group Foundation was still in the process of training. Although this Cup was the seed that later germinated in the close relationship between the Foundation with different charitable activities.

 London Supply Group Foundation was founded in 2008 in Barrio 1 ° de Mayo, one of the humblest conglomerates in the city of Puerto Iguazú, Province of Misiones, Argentina, home to about 2,000 families living in extreme poverty.

The first establishment to be inaugurated was the 875 "Doña Mercedes García de Taratuty" Primary School, which opened its doors in September 2010 and now has more than 600 students that run its aisles. In addition, a pre-school room was set up inside the Educational Park to prepare children who would start a year later the primary level.

In 2008, the manager of one of our business units located in the city of Puerto Iguazú visited Training School No. 875, meeting Lurdes Rodríguez, its director, and making contact with the community of Barrio 1º de Mayo, one of the most humble conglomerates in the Province of Misiones where more than 2,000 families live.

It was then that the Foundation decided to commit to the school through some improvements; but it was in July of that year, when our President, Teddy Taratuty, upon visiting the school, made a decision that would change the history of that community: to build, in that same place, a new school, which would include a kindergarten, a complete primary school and a high school for children from 45 days to 17 years old, with the conditions that these children and teachers needed.

For this purpose, authorization was requested from the provincial and municipal authorities to carry out this donation, adapting us to the educational line carried out by the province, who provided us with the necessary and fundamental collaboration to have the transfer of public lands where the work would be located. the provision of public services such as electricity, gas and water, and the coordination to provide the curricular structure and appointment of the teaching and auxiliary personnel that the project demands.

Three years later, in March 2013, in the eagerness that the children of the neighborhood could continue their studies in the same property, near their families and with their same companions; The Foundation inaugurated the Provincial Vocational Baccalaureate Nº106 "Don José Taratuty" with orientation in Tourism, a secondary school with capacity for 600 adolescents that has its own Youth Club self-administered by the boys, who carry out the buffet and sports activities of the park.

London Supply Group Foundation members attended an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, in order to present to His Holiness the social and educational project that the Foundation carries out in the cities where London Supply Group has business units; And above all, to bring it to the attention of the Foundation in the Barrio de Mayo of the city of Puerto Iguazú, in the province of Misiones, where it has built and donated to this Province an Educational Park that now houses more than 1,000 children in school age.

The Supreme Pontiff was excited about the hundreds of letters that the neighborhood children and their families sent him.

In addition, the Holy Father gave a special blessing to the construction project of the Blessed John Paul II Parish, which will be donated by the Foundation to the Bishopric of Puerto Iguazú and will be erected on a plot of land adjacent to the Educational Park.

The inauguration of the San Ramon Nursing Home was held, in an act that was attended by the Governor of the Province of Misiones, Lic. Hugo Passalacqua; the Bishop of Puerto Iguazú, Monsignor Dr. Marcelo Martorell; Teddy Taratuty, Chairman of the London Supply Group Foundation; the Mayor of the Municipality of Puerto Iguazú, Dr. Claudio Filippa; the Vice Governor of the Province of Misiones, Dr. Oscar Herrera Ahuad; the Director of the London Supply Group Foundation, Lic. María Taratuty; and Sister Josefa Falcón, belonging to the nuns of the Servants of the Holy Spirit Congregation, who have administered the Nursing Home since its inception.

The donation from the London Supply Group Foundation could be made with the funds obtained from the penultimate edition of the London Supply Cup benefit golf tournament. It included the improvement of the building conditions of the current building, which was deteriorated, and the construction of a Day Home, intended to provide services for both local residents and senior citizens who need to spend part of their day in a residence of this type.

The Hogar de Día has a 1165 mts.² building in a privileged sector of the land with views of the banks of the Paraná River. It also has living areas, equipped with tables for games, rest areas, gym, dining room and kitchen. Likewise, the building contains medical offices, nursing and rehabilitation rooms, administrative offices, a laundry room, and a sanitary area specially equipped and adapted for the elderly.

Finally, in 2014, the third and last stage of the Educational Park is finished: the Mother and Child Garden "Mother Teresa of Calcutta", which will receive babies from 45 days to 3 years old and the room for 4 years.

This new stage aims to provide medical and psychological assistance and counseling to pregnant women, accompanying them during the 9 months of gestation; As well as guarantee the newborns the necessary nutrients and medical care so that they develop well during the first months and years of life.

Now the children of Barrio 1 ° de Mayo will be able to walk through the different educational levels within the Park, entering the 45 days of life and remaining in the Mother and Child Garden until the age of 3, In which they will pass to the salita of 4 years before entering the preschool. After completing the 6 years, they will begin their studies in the Primary School No. 875 "Doña Mercedes García de Taratuty" and years later, they will finish their secondary education in the Provincial Vocational Baccalaureate No. 106 "Don José Taratuty".

After many efforts, constant work and some unexpected setbacks, the delivery of the keys to the new building built especially for the "Las Gaviotas" Provincial Experimental School in the city of Ushuaia, in the Province of Tierra del Fuego, was finally completed.

This work materializes the dream of an entire educational community that, since the creation of the School in 2003, has been forced to move through different borrowed locations, with the ever-present desire to obtain their own space in settling down.

Moved by the struggle of these parents and teachers to find a suitable place for the education and development of their children, in 2018 we decided to allocate the proceeds from the 14th edition of our Golf Tournament to the construction of the much-dreamed-of establishment, which It would take place on land in the Alakalufes II neighborhood, ceded by the Municipality of Ushuaia.

Thanks to the joint work with the State, at the beginning of this year we were able to conclude the works: an establishment with multiple differentiated spaces that facilitate the implementation of the innovative pedagogical modality of "Las Gaviotas", which follows the guidelines proposed by the Institute of Higher Education "Roberto Themis Speroni" of Buenos Aires.

However, a few days before the inauguration, the start of the social, preventive and mandatory isolation paralyzed our plans. Today, almost three months later, we were finally able to hand over the keys, so that the director and teaching staff, abiding by all the precautions and protocols in force, begin to move the equipment and furniture from the School to the new establishment.

We are extremely pleased to know that, when classes can resume, the classrooms will be ready to receive the 130 students who are eagerly awaiting to discover their new School.