Gustavo Correa

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Gustavo Correa is a former member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing institution of the Bahá'í Faith. He was first elected to a five year term in 2008, and served a second term until 2018. [1] and was reelected in 2013. [2] He was previously the Director and one of the founders of FUNDAEC, a Baha'i-inspired development organization in Colombia. [3]

Universal House of Justice Elected institution governing the worldwide Baháí community

The Universal House of Justice is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Bahá'í Faith. It was envisioned by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, as an institution that could legislate on issues not already addressed in the Bahá'í writings, providing flexibility for the Bahá'í Faith to adapt to changing conditions. It was first elected in 1963, and subsequently every five years, by delegates consisting of the members of Bahá'í National Spiritual Assemblies throughout the world.

Baháí Faith Monotheistic religion founded in 1863 by Baháulláh in the Middle East; promotes the unity of mankind; sees major religions as unified in purpose; faces persecution in Iran

The Bahá'í Faith is a religion teaching the essential worth of all religions, and the unity and equality of all people. Established by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863, it initially grew in Persia and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its inception. It is estimated to have between 5 and 8 million adherents, known as Bahá'ís, spread out into most of the world's countries and territories.

FUNDAEC, the acronym in Spanish for “The Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences”, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that focuses on training and development in the rural areas of Colombia and other countries in Latin America. It was created in 1974 in Colombia by a group of scientists and professionals led by Farzam Arbab, a renowned physicist who had arrived as a visiting professor to the University of Valle in 1970.

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FUNDAEC

Gustavo Correa was one of the founders of FUNDAEC (Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences) and later served as its Director. FUNDAEC was established in 1974 by a group of professors at the University of Valle in Colombia who were looking for new strategies to develop the capacities of people and to generate knowledge in isolated regions of the country. [4] In 2002, as its Director, Correa accepted an award on behalf of FUNDAEC from the Club of Budapest which recognized FUNDAEC's new rural education model. [3]

University of Valle public university in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

The University of Valle, also called Univalle, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. It is the largest higher education institution by student population in the southwest of the country, and the third in Colombia, with more than 30,000 students. The university was established by ordinance No. 12 of 1945, by the Departmental Assembly as the Industrial University of Valle del Cauca, under the leadership of Tulio Ramírez Rojas and Severo Reyes Gamboa.

The Club of Budapest is an international organization founded in 1993 by Ervin László to expand beyond the exclusively scientific purpose of The General Evolution Research Group to try to mobilize the full cultural resources of humanity to meet the future challenges.

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  1. ↑ "Baha'is elect Universal House of Justice". Bahá’í World News Service. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  2. ↑ "Universal House of Justice elected". Bahá’í World News Service. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  3. 1 2 "Baha'i-inspired educational system for the poor of the world honored by the Club of Budapest". Bahá’í World News Service. 22 December 2002. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  4. ↑ Arbab, Farzam; Correa, Gustavo; de Valcarcel, Francia (1988). "FUNDAEC: Its Principles and its Activities". CELATER, Cali, Colombia. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
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