History

WE HAVE

1. Centers with refuge opportunities and transitory shelters
(Ambato, Guayaquil, Quito, Sto. Domingo)

STREET KIDS

SALESIAN PROJECT

Educational Proposal

The Salesian Project "Children of the street" since its beginning, two decades ago, has been interested in configuring an educative proposal in such a way that we can help to children of the streets and working kids who are in a special risk situation.

The perspective of work has being changing during these years because of new points of view on childhood, on new challenges of the most ecuadorian poor people and because of the educational experience gained in the specific work with the children of the street.

Two decades ago the work was made to protect and rehabilitate children from the negative influence of the streets on the children behavior. What the children received as a educational proposal was a protective institution service. In this perspective the main interest is the "institution".

But along the way we realized the different difficulties that appeared because of the "institutionalized perspective", specially, the "children dependence" of the institution. This challenged the Salesian project to find out new strategies to work with them. That's the reason because the Salesian Project began to work with families, schools, neighborhood organizations and with the children in their street enviroment. This new perspective has given a privilege to two important strategies: prevention and promotion. The Salesian Project tries not only to avoid children becoming "negative children in the streets", but it is more importante to offer them alternative choices of promotion to better the quality of their lives. The more important thing is to find with them new horizons for their future.

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who we are.- We are an pastoral educative community in which the Salesians and lay persons work together, in a climate of corresponsibility

what we do.- Accompany and share the educative process to realize the appostolic project of Don Bosco: "to be educated as honest citizens and good christians"

who we work for.- For the children of the street, young children, adolescent and youth workers, and those in a special situation of risk.

why we work.- To contribute in the construction of a more just and common society, getting better the quality of their lives by means of a complete training, so that they may develop their character and social role and their abilities and potentials.

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To improve the conditions in which the children, adolescents, and young street workers work, through a program of educational accompaniment in the streets to promote their capabilities, to elevate their self-esteem, and to strengthen their identities.

2. OPPORTUNITY FOR REFUGE AND FAMILY REHABILITATION

To offer the street children, adolescents, and young street workers temporary shelter, basic health care, nutrition, psychological attention, and training, while they realize management of the family rehabilitation.

3. WORK WITH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY

* To accompany the family in order to not exploit nor mal treat the children, adolscents, and young street workers, through educational proposals helping families needing good relations, respect, affection, and parental responsibility.

* To mobilize the different parts of the community (family, neighborhood organizations, school, etc.) with the objective of creating a new culture for childhood that recognizes and respects the rights, assuming with ethical criterion the best interest of the children, adolescents, and youth.

4. COMMUNICATION AND NET WORK

To promote the communication and the work in organized net, at national, regional level, and with the civil, ecclesiastic salesian organizations in order to consolidate the culture of the solidarity and to coordinate actions in favor of the children of the street and workers.

5. ALTERNTIVE EDUCATION 

To obtain jobs that don�t interfere with the education of the children, adolescents, and young street workers, through a program oriented to help gain access and permancence in the school, the teachers commitment to this task. Family and student commitment to this task.

6. LIBERAL EVANGELIZATION

To propose to the children, adolescents, and young street workers the values of the Gospel, the way to become good Christians and honest citizens and set up a Christian vision of life and of the history and to copel them in the construction of a society according to the plan of God.

7. TRAINING WITH AND FOR JOB

To creatively help the technical and professional ability in the community with the end to professionally prepare the adolescents and youth for the world of jobs.

8.  INFANTILE AND JUVENILE ORGANIZATION

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