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Our mission is to
appropriately give shelter to, assist and accompany children,
families and communities who live in poverty and/or have their
rights deprived.
We develop preventive and promotion actions
aimed at encouraging people to actively participate in our
search of autonomy as well as family, social and community
integration of those in need. Similarly, we encourage them
to use their own capacities and resources, the Hogar de Cristo
and government resources, as well as those resources available
from others to them.
We have implemented different ways of assistance throughout
the country.
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Family Foster Homes
These foster homes give shelter to breastfed babies,
children and youth who have their rights deprived, and
who have been referred from juvenile courts and other
institutions. A small number of children live with a
family where they receive all what they need to develop
themselves as comprehensively as possible. Family reintegration
is encouraged.
• Shelter from family
network
Shelter is given to children and young people under
similar conditions as those assisted by Family Foster
Homes. The difference is that these children and young
people are received by a relative, who may be the grandparent,
an uncle or aunt, the godparents, or any other significant
family member who can ensure the exercise of the child’s
rights and give them protection and caring.
• Street Children
This program receives abandoned children and young people
who live in the streets in total social exclusion, whether
because they are abandoned, or begging. This program
seeks to diminish the damage this situation has caused
to them by meeting physical, psychological and social
needs of the children who live in the streets, promoting
their family and community reintegration.
• Local Childhood Program
These transitory programs give shelter to children aged
between three months and six years old, who live in
situations of poverty and social exclusion. Through
these programs we support the responsible role of the
parents and their permanence at work by promoting the
use of community networks.
• My Supported Child Program
This program contributes to the education
of low-income children, by providing them with educational
resources and support in order that they may have an
occupation or profession to break away the circle of
poverty they live in. Opportunity is given to high income
people or families who want to support or accompany
a particular child throughout his/her formation process
and development until becoming an adult with appropriate
tools to face his/her life in a better way. |
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