2008
Las Creches: Psychosocial Recovery for Girls removed from their families by the Family Court (US$ 5,000)
The Project helps protect and provide comprehensive care for 23 girls between the ages of 4 and 17 who are brought to the center by the Family Court for serious violations of their rights. The organization Las Creches has extensive experience working with girls who have been abandoned, mistreated and/or victims of sexual abuse. The objective of the organization is to enable the girls to eventually return to their families, to a substitute family, or to an independent living situation and to help them overcome the underlying factors that caused the girls to need care in Las Creches. The girls live in a home that is located in the community of La Reina. They receive personalized care in a family-style environment under the care of adults, educators, and specialized professionals, who give them the psychological and educational support that they need. The individual work with the girls emphasizes the development of emotional ties, good habits, constructive values, skills, positive self image and esteem and the building of an improved relationship with their families, including a strengthening of parental roles. The Foundation covers expenditures related to food and professional psychological services such as diagnosis and treatment.
Corporación Siempre Contigo (Always With You Corporation): Spiral Project (US$ 5,000)
The Project will help 40 low-income children and adolescents (6 to 14 years old) with attention deficit disorder by providing them with scholarships to participate in psychosocial workshops (psycho-pedagogical support and training in social skills), working with them to improve their relationships with their families (field visits), coordinating with their teachers from the municipal schools (follow-up plans) and providing multidisciplinary attention by professionals linked to the area of pedagogy and psychology. This NGO, with its headquarters in the Community of San Miguel, was recently created (2002) and it was only in June of last year that SENAME (National Minors Service) recognized it as a collaborating institution. The Corporation has experience working with socially vulnerable minors and adolescents from municipal schools in the poorest communities in Santiago with Attention Disorder (inability to pay attention and concentrate, memory problems and impulsivity) who lack adequate emotional support from their families. As a result, these kids often repeat grades and are at risk of dropping out of school. The Corporation will use the financial support it receives from the Foundation for equipment, workshops, food, transportation and partial remuneration of the professionals.
Roof for a Brother Foundation: Food Assistance Program for Children Cecilia Arrieta Scholastic Support Center (US$ 5,000)
This project is a continuation of one that we provided funding for in 2007. Since 1994, this organization has supported the low-income population of the community of Peñalolén, assisting girls and boys with their school work, nutrition and clothing. It also provides care during summer vacation, recreational activities, and medical and dental attention. The objective of the center is to provide a healthy and constructive alternative for children ages 1 to 18, whose mothers work long hours and do not have anyone to care for their children in their absence. The target population is one that is very poor, where overcrowding, alcoholism, drug addiction and family violence are rife. The children are offered at least one balanced meal a day, according to their age and class schedule. They are accompanied until someone can come and pick them up or they are taken to their homes at night. During 2007, 61 children benefited from the program. This number will be maintained in 2008, with basically the same children. In addition to food, the project supports and strengthens the children’s self-esteem and good social habits and provides them with a new perspective on life where they learn to value themselves and are given the opportunity to succeed according to their capabilities. Our Foundation will finance most of the food that will be given to the children.
Municipal Corporation Education, Health and Care of Minors in Puente Alto: Volcan Population (US$ 5,000)
This Project is also being continued from 2007. The activities that will be financed (equipment and transportation) will help a Street Program for children and adolescents in the Volcán population of the Puente Alto Community, where the high-level of violence and social exclusion has resulted in “corner groups” and/or “gangs.” The project supports 132 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 at three different levels. The individual level includes the most vulnerable children (73), providing individual and family diagnostic screening and intervention plans. At the group level, there are seven groups, focusing on strengthening the ties between young people and educators through activities such as table tennis and youth soccer. At the organizational level, a registry was established of all the institutions that work with adolescents and children, creating communication channels that will facilitate the care of beneficiary children and families. During 2008, it is expected that this work will continue, reinforcing the group activities, (training of leaders, personal development, socio-educational and recreational workshops and the execution of local projects). The objective of these activities is to enable the children and adolescents to overcome the violence they have experienced in their lives and to strengthen the use of existing resources at the individual, group, family and community level in order to promote social integration.
Youth and Children’s Orchestra of Chile (US $5,750)
The funds that were raised from the Annual Chilean Dinner in December 2007 were shared, under the auspices of the Chilean Ambassador to the United States with this Foundation. The contributions will go to a scholarship program for music education, musical instruments, and to cover the costs to participate in concerts of low-income children and adolescents with musical talent. These scholarships will enable children to have access to necessary resources in order for them to develop their musical talents at an early age.
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