Haven of Love (Remanso de Amor) in Quito, Ecuador is serving the poor by overseeing programs to benefit families and their communities, to help people better their socioeconomic situation, and to provide education and/or education reinforcement of needy children. Remanso de Amor is currently in the process of finishing the construction of the fourth floor of the elementary and high school. There is a vision to provide other training programs such as: vehicle mechanics, carpentry, beauty care, and dress making (seamstress). Some of this vision is already taking place.
Project Days | Saturday § Monday § Tuesday§ Wednesday
The team will lead activities for a community event "Dia de Nino" (Day of the Child) sponsored by Remanso de Amor on Saturday morning. Over 500 children are expected to participate.
The team will help with the construction of the fourth floor which consists of 5 classrooms.
Zambiza Dump Program
Extreme Response actually grew out of a small kids’ club in the garbage dump of Quito, Ecuador (also known as the Zambiza Dump). In June of 1997 the Extreme Response founders began working with the 300+ people that lived and worked right there in the trash. These people gleaned their living by digging through the garbage that flows out of the back of garbage trucks, living in small shacks made from pallets and other building materials they found in the trash. They survived on what they found to use, eat and sell. In 2006, ER opened the Zambiza Daycare Center & Preschool - over 50 children ages newborn through 5 years now attend. ER also provides family counseling, hygiene classes, education assistance, a weekly kids club and moms club, weekly feeding for night workers and much more.
Project Day | Tuesday
Prepare and serve meal for Night-Outreach
Por Amor Foundation Dump Program
ER’s partnership with Fundacion por Amor (Foundation for Love) reaches out to over 150 of the poorest families in the suburbs of Manta. These families survive and depend on what they pick out of the garbage dump. The children from these families are faced with the task of helping their family financially by sorting trash and helping care for their brothers and sisters. These tasks keep them from receiving an education that will help break the cycle of growing up and working in the dump. The foundation’s goal is to get the children out of the garbage and into the school books.
Montanita Verde Children’s Home
The children’s home provides for primary needs of orphaned children from the Manta area. These children come from high-risk situations, destined to work the street for survival, with little hope of breaking the cycle. Ecuador’s government does not have adequate infrastructure, resources or systems to identify or care for many cases of desperate youth.
Project Day | Thursday
AM: Lead program at dump; PM: Afternoon with children at beach
