School support

Due to the oil price collapse since the beginning of the year, Ecuador was already standing with its back to the wall, and now the corona crisis has also hit the country. Since mid-March the government has imposed a comprehensive curfew.

Now, due to the corona crisis, regular school lessons are also cancelled. Although digital learning content is offered, it can hardly be used by the families in the neighbourhood. Therefore we now offer the children support lessons in small groups. In this way, the curriculum material is reviewed in a way that is appropriate for each level and each child, so that the pupils have not lost touch after the crisis.

This additional service is resource-intensive, which is why we have been collecting money especially for this project

Food baskets

Many of our families are informal workers, street vendors or unskilled bricklayers with weekly wages. They live from day to day, or in other words from hand to mouth.

In a short period of time, this situation has greatly worsened their living conditions, as they no longer have the money to buy their food, and so many are already suffering from hunger. Unfortunately, the aid that the state has announced is still lacking.

The Fundación has started distributing food rations to the most affected families in order to reduce the economic and psychological impact in these families.

Each food basket contains: 

Such a food basket costs about 12 € and is delivered every 2 weeks.

For this additional effort we have started a fundraising campaign. We are overwhelmed by the response: within a short time the necessary amount has been collected, so that we can support the families on site for at least 4 months.

Thank you very much for your support!

Marco Nyffeler
Founder of the Fundación Minadores de Sueños

Although these two short-hand projects have been finished, your donation is still welcome! Please have a look at the donations page for more information, thank you.