Jorge Munoz

Jorge Munoz was born on 23 March 1964(62 years old) in Colombia. Jorge Munoz is Entrepreneur, Zodiac sign - Aries. More detail about Jorge Munoz given below.

Jorge Munoz Timeline

• 1987
  

  Muu00f1oz was born in Colombia to a humble family. When he was in his late teens, his father died in an accident and due to a difficult economic situation, his mother traveled to New York in search for a better future. Muu00f1oz followed his mother, moving to New York to find work to support the family, obtaining legal residency in 1987, and later becoming a citizen, along with his mother and sister. Muu00f1oz works as a school bus driver. Muu00f1oz is a member of the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International.

• 2004
  

  Muu00f1oz has been called a real life angel due to his commitment to help others by daily cooking and offering free hot meals to hungry people in Queens, New York. In 2004, Muu00f1oz began his philanthropic labour, when he realized that large amounts of food were thrown away at some places. Initially, he collected food from local businesses and handed out meals to underprivileged people three nights a week. As time passed by, his mother and sister, and some friends, joined him in this endeavor, and then he could start to offer food on a daily basis. Muu00f1oz invests a large part of his salary to support his philanthropic activities, and sometimes receives donations from third parties.

• 2006
  

  In 2006, Muu00f1oz directed his efforts into the creation of the An Angel in Queens Foundation, a non-profit institution that targets the problem of hunger in the less privileged in the city of New York.

• 2010
  

  Muu00f1oz himself acknowledges that his altruistic activities became of public knowledge after his story was published by the New York Times. Afterwards, the exposure of his philanthropic work allowed him to be one of the recipients of the CNN heroes tribute, as he classified in the Top 10 heroes of 2009. Later on, in 2010, people in the United States nominated him, along with other 6000 nominees, to be the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal. He was awarded one of the 13 medals. In 2012, Muu00f1oz was presented the Order of the Congress of Colombia in the Degree of Knight by the Senate of Colombia, as a recognition of his philanthropic efforts to help the Latin immigrants of New York City. In the same year, Muu00f1oz was acknowledged as one of the 100 most outstanding Colombian expatriates by Marca Colombia and Fusionarte, during a ceremony held at the Casa de Nariu00f1o, in company of the President Juan Manuel Santos. Muu00f1oz has received, among other acknowledgments and distinctions, the distinction for being an exemplary human being due to his outstanding moral values by the Assembly of the Valle del Cauca Department, and the decoration for his humanitarian labour in the United States and the bestowing with the Freedom of the city by the Mayorship and the City Council of Manizales.Jorge Muu00f1oz was candidate of the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia in 2010, when he ran for Representative of the Colombian expatriates. He obtained second place in the elections thanks to 8.197 votes. Muu00f1oz was once again running for Representative of the Colombian expatriates for the 2014 Colombian parliamentary election, but that time he was the leader of the list of candidates of the MIRA movement to the Chamber of representatives for the Colombian expatriates constituency.