The main objectives of the institution are to:
  • Welcome children in a free, home-like day care center, so their parents can work without leaving them in risk.
  • Offer children a healthy and adecquate environement, where they can receive sicopedagogic support, as well as a moral and religious education in a pluralistic and ecumenic approach.
  • Prevent juvenile delinquency and children abbandonement,preventing children to remain without contention and to become street children.
  • Help families to integrate better, and improve their social and educational conditions.
  Even if each House developes its own schedule (depending of the local
school timetable, for example, children with attend school in the morning
or in the afternoon), a typical day at a Children House will be as it follows:

Children are receive early in the morning (7:30AM). They have breakfast
at the House, and those over 5 years old are brought to local school.
When they can back, they have lunch, during the afternoon they are
helped in their school works and receive psico-pedagogic support, and
moral-religious education. Around 7 PM, and after having a snack, they
go back home bringing a bag a bread to share with their family.

The children learn how to use fork and knife to eat, how to developed
right hygienic habits, how to manage in public places, and possitive
social attitudes that influence, through children, also their families.

Recreational activities, little tours to local highlights, parties celebrating
national and religious festivities or birthdays are a normal part of the life
at Children Houses.

Results of this task: the first children are now at University.
  Around the Children Houses several activities are carried out, aimed to all
members of the asssisted families and to the community to which they
belong.

These are same of the complementary programs developed around the
Children Houses:

Alphabetization programs for adults.

  • Job training for teenagers and adults.
  • Job searching help.
  • Preventive medicine: prevention campaigns on AIDS, drugs and
    alcohol abbuse, nutrition, cholera, etc. Vaccination, odontologic
    and pediatric periodical controls, etc.
  • Sexual education, Workshops on gander roles, women dignity,
    eaten women, abortion, etc.
  • Early stimulation of children.
  • Elderly promotion.
  • Vegetable gardens, Communitary buyning.
  • House building cooperative through selfachievement.
  • Catechesis.

Not all these programs are held during the year by all the Houses. Each
one chooses those more adecquate to the local needs, or creates new
programs, according to the particular interests.

During the hiper inflation crisis, that provoked hunger riots in most of big
cities in March-July 1989, some Children Houses developed soup-kitchen
services for all needed people in their neighborhood.

A survey conducted during 1991 by FAAF board showed that 54% of
the parents participate in complementary activities like courses,
workshops or parents meetings, and more than 90% had received
benefits from assistance programs such as distribution of clothes, etc.

Geografic distribution of the 159 "Children Houses" in Argentina
provinces: We have centers in every argentinian province from Antartide
to Jujuy.

June 2002: we have 167 centers all over Argentina and working in
Uruguay, Peru , Venezuela, Mexico, South Africa, India and Haiti.

 

 

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