HISTORY
Created in 1993, in the province of Imbabura, our foundation “Cristo de la Calle” is dedicated to improve the conditions of life of the more vulnerable children, adolescents and families.
Like the rest of Ecuador, the provincial capital of Imbabura, Ibarra, is confronted to a numerous of problems that affect the less integrated groups of the community: social inequalities, familiar breach of the human rights, problems, delinquency, etc.
Often, this social atmosphere is unsuitable to raise the children, it creates abandonment of children and adolescent. Our priority is to assure the well-being and the security of the children and adolescents. Our action is oriented to the people who are the more set out to situations of marginalization and exclusion.
Trying to assure safe and stable surroundings in which the children and adolescents can growth and develop themselves.
Our action concentrates mainly in the necessity to carry out initiatives integrating the four main actors : people, public institutions, private institutions, and the government. Our objective is to face up as well as possible to the social problems that affect to the families of Imbabura.
We are taking care that each child or adolescent can live in a healthful family. Also, our goal is to give the necessary support to the families in order to educate, to protect, to accompany and to provide security to the children and adolescents. We insist on the emancipation and the responsibility of each by the mean of a long process of learning. Which allows each family to be independent.
MISSION
Our Fundation is taking care of the social welfare of the groups of high-priority attention in the North region of the country. Offering special care through a rigorous and efficient manner. The main goal of our foundation is to guarantee the application and the restitution of the well living rights, in which the criteria the most important are : the responsibility, the co-determination and the co-financing.
VISION
The Fundacion Cristo de la Calle is a sustainable organization which works at a national scale like a referring one of social change. Focused on the groups of high-priority care, that affects the definition of public policies. In agreement with the social dynamic tendencies and, with positive impact in the quality of life of the people and social development of the country.