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In 1980, William Garcia Olano contacted Hogar para el Niño Especial (The Special Child Home) in Bogotá, Colombia, an institution dedicated to the protection and care of abandoned children afflicted with the Down Syndrome. Its mission is managing the institute's insurance program, occasionally helping with donation campaigns.

With time, it spearheaded the institute's fund-raising campaigns, finally becoming a member of the Board of Directors, up until the mid 90s.

The idea of creating the Infantis Sanum Foundation was born from contacts made with parents having economic difficulties as a result of their children's illnesses and being unable to secure the economic resources required for providing the necessary medical attention, especially in cases requiring traveling to the United States; an attitude of gratitude toward life by having two (2) healthy daughters. Cristina (Right) and Laura (Left).

A group of friends of the Infantis Sanum Foundation accepted an invitation to co-operate economically in the process of organizing and implementing the idea. They are: Arka Estudios, Eduardo Acosta and family, Fernando Arrieta and family, Juan José Buenahora and family, Roger Buendia and family, Carlos Guillermo Cabal and family, Nora Castro, Rudy Catanzaro, Fernando Cortés Jr. and family, Edgardo de la Hoz and family, Pablo Fernández and family, Fernando Gaitan and family, Giovanni Granada and family, Ricardo Gutiérrez and family, Liliana Lopez and sons (Sara and Lorenzo Ruiz López), Cesar Martínez and family, Mónica Moreno, John Moore and family, Julio Nieto Bernal, Manuel Guillermo Prada, Alvaro Quijano and family, Radio Santafé, Alvaro Ramirez and family, Marco Fidel Rocha and family, Beatriz Helena Salazar and family, Gabriel Salcedo and family, Martha Cecilia Sanchez, Javier Toledo and family, Juan Antonio Uribe and family, and Hernán Vargas and family.

William García Olano
President
Infantis Sanum Foundation
Hildebrando Diaz Olano
Pediatrician, member of the Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatricians (FAAP), guest member of the Santafe de Bogota Foundation Pediatrics Department in Bogota, Colombia.