Argentina – Ecumenical transition home

Our sisters in Quilmes, Argentina have asked our help for Betania home, a transition centre for women and children fleeing domestic violence. It offers a safe dwelling when their lives are endangered due to violent circumstances. The home is a temporary refuge so they can breathe again and find an autonomous alternative way of life for themselves and their children.

Paraguay –Street Children

Our sisters of the Mita Roga de la Pasión Home in the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo in the city of Caaguazu have created nutrition and schooling programs for children from unsafe, broken, alcoholic, and single-mother homes. This leads single mothers to take on the role of father as well as mother. It is a marginalized, displaced, unsalaried population where children must work on the street and for carpenters completing health hazard jobs. The home asked for annual funding for healthy nutrition and better basic schooling that what their parents can provide.

About the Centre

We are a charitable organization founded in 1973 to aid developing countries pursuing of Christ’s mission to “feed the hungry, drink to the thirsty, healing to the sick. What you to unto the least of these, you do unto me.” (Mt 25: 31-40 )

In the fields of

Education

• Educational, nutritive, and social promotion of street children

• Professional training

• Education of young girls from rural areas

• Holistic formation of poor neighbourhood youth 

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Health

• Maternity and infant healthcare

• Aid to displaced persons

• Drilling wells

Social

• Drop-in for domestic violence victims

• Reinsertion of young drug addicts

• Professional and social promotion of women in rural areas