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SOS Children's Villages in Cuenca
SOS Children's Village Ricaurte was opened in 1997 and is located in the small town of the same name a few kilometres outside Cuenca, the capital of the province Azuay. Cuenca is often referred to as the 'Athens of Ecuador' as it is famous for its poets and artists. Cuenca has a population of about 300,000 and is known for its universities and its factories that make ceramics and furniture.
The SOS Children's Village was built on 2.5 hectares of land and has twelve family houses that provide a new home to a total of 108 children. The Children's Village also has a village director's house, an administrative building with offices and a house for the "SOS aunts" (SOS Children's Village mothers in training who assist current SOS mothers in their everyday work and stand in for them if they are ill or on holiday).
The SOS Kindergarten was likewise opened in 1997 and provides supervision for up to 50 children from the SOS Children's Village and the local neighbourhood in its two group rooms. Two SOS Youth Facilities (for girls and boys) were created in urban Cuenca in 2001. Young people from the SOS Children's Village can be housed here for the period of their secondary or vocational education, which gradually prepares them for an independent life.
Since January 2006, an SOS Social Centre also forms part of the SOS Children's Village Ricaurte. The SOS Social Centre is run as a day-care centre and has a capacity of up to 90 children. The day-care centre is particularly valuable to single mothers from the area as it enables them to earn or at least contribute towards earning money for the family, safe in the knowledge that their children are being cared for by trained supervisors.
Information events are held on health, balanced diets and other health issues. Supporting women is also a central concern. Further vocational training in a range of manual work is available for women, so as to improve single mothers' qualifications and therefore increase their income and improve their societal status.
Our Impact
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SOS Children's Villages makes use of its existing infrastructure and presence in many countries and regions in its efforts to provide assistance the people affected with urgently needed help in the most efficient way possible. We cooperate with local governmental authorities and United Nations agencies in order to respond in the most effective, coordinated way possible when disaster strikes |
0 EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAMS | Emergency relief recipients |
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The SOS Kindergarten in Ecuador are a fundamental building block for the early development needs including, intellectual and social skills for children. |
0 KINDERGARTENS | Kindergarten students |
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SOS Medical Centres offer inpatient and outpatient treatment and employ highly qualified staff of state registered nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians and doctors |
0 MEDICAL CENTRES | Patients |
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SOS Social Centres in Ecuador aim is to help families, in particular women and children, living in communities neighbouring the SOS Children's Villages to gradually escape from poverty, and to help young people become self-reliant. |
1 SOCIAL CENTRES | 535 Beneficiaries |
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SOS Vocational Training Centres provide young adults from our youth centres, SOS villages and the surrounding community with the skills they will need to secure reliable employment. They provide realistic job opportunities for the future and an avenue to independence |
0 VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES | Youth and adult students |
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The SOS Children's Village in Ecuador provides loving homes to orphaned and abandoned children |
1 VILLAGES | 81 Orphaned and Abandoned Children |
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The SOS Youth Facilities in Ecuador provides youth with a loving environment where they learn to transition into independent living and to expand their education |
1 YOUTH FACILITIES | 45 Youths in our Care |
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