Community Development

The area of community development execute the follow projects

  • Recycling and Clothing Projects
  • Home Assistance

Recycling and Clothing Projects
To organise activities that involve the inhabitants of the community is to start a transformation process for the benefit of all. On our way to change, the following objectives arose:

  • To offer projects that will improve the physical and social environment of the children and teenagers of the community.
  • To reach the aim of involving the community members with the foundation projects.

The recycling project is an answer to the tremendous quantity of waste crowding the streets of the community. Through this project we rise awareness among the children about the environment and give them the opportunity to take care of nature by recycling and reusing plastic, glass and paper. By getting the youngest to recycle, they stimulate the rest of the family to do the same.

the children with the recycled products recycling project in the community Rancho los Pinos they pay per kilo to the children

The community second hand clothes store is our answer to provide the community with clothes in good condition and above all affordable, to help reduce the clothing costs in the family. It is also a sustainable way to reuse clothes that otherwise would have been discarded, generating more pollution. With the collected funds we can partly finance the teenagers’ zone program.

families buying clothes well organised second hand clothes store the second hand clothes store is a real benefit for the needy families

Home Assistance
The home assistance project aims at children and teenagers who have participated in the foundation programs and for whom it has been impossible to solve major family issues.  There are some cases in which the family nucleus is unable to provide the child with the means for a decent life and his/her integral development. The consequences are major psychological damage with repercussion on the behaviour. When such problems go beyond the pedagogical field, the foundation intervenes by putting in place the home assistance project with the following aim:

  • To ensure the enforcement of children’s and teenagers’ right to a decent life and to the necessary socio-economical conditions to develop fully.

adolescent learning a profesion excursion with the children from the home assistance project children learning household chores

Consistent with the psychological and social situation at stake, the foundation intends to improve the children and teenagers´ living conditions, by changing the social structure they are in, while always ensuring their well-being. The foundation intervenes in fortuitous and aggravating cases. The ultimate recourse is to initiate a legal process to separate the child from his family and to look for familiars that can offer a better and safer environment. If this solution doesn’t ensure the child’s rights, we look for host family or children’s home.