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Casa de la Esperanza


Take a journey through the streets of Latin America. Learn about the lives of our children who are suffering from poverty and sexual exploitation. See life through their tear filled eyes. Take a moment to walk in their shoes. Witness miracles in the making as you see a light shining from the distance. Let the light guide you to the Casa de la Esperanza center. Walk through it's doors to behold a place of hope, created by the hands of God.

Meet those who work in our centers providing daily meals to relieve the hunger pains of a child. A place for street children to call home. Giving them the opportunity to experience a stable family atmosphere. Before your very eyes you will witness pain transformed into peace, and the chains of drug addiction broken through our one on one and group counseling programs. Along with healing their inner wounds our on-site nurse meets their physical needs in our medical clinic. Walk into our class rooms and behold children being educated. Preparing our future leaders for the responsibility of bringing social and economical change within their communities. In these class rooms you will see children and families receiving education, and computer training. Taking them to the next steps of vocational training. Providing them with the tools to fulfill their destiny. Travel with our street teams as they reach out to additional children in the streets, and visit local families. Transforming communities into havens of hope.

The arms the Casa de la Esperanza center reaches beyond it's four walls. Through street teams, special events, educational magazine publications, 24 hour 1-800 help lines, and outreach centers we embrace those living in desperate situations throughout our communities. Developing stable family structures, and transforming communities into havens of hope. Opening the doors for love to flood through the streets like a mighty river. Consuming everyone and everything in it's path. Washing away the stains of the past. Pouring hope into the lives of many.

The Esperanza Movimiento Foundation is passionate about our mission to help these children off the streets, and giving them a hope for a brighter future. Bringing social change into cities and villages, stabilizing the family structure, Each of our centers will provide services to a estimated 500 street children monthly, housing over 40+ boys and 40+ girls, reconnecting hundreds of street children with their families, and reaching out to hundreds of families. We will advocate with and on behalf of youth to raise awareness in the community about their suffering. Opening people’s eyes and changing laws that in the past have forgotten about these children living on the streets. We will not weaken our fight against poverty, abuse, and the child sex trade industry.

web: http://www.esperanzamovimiento.org
Email: hopemovement@msn.com

Adopt-A-Center is one of the foundations upon which the Esperanza Movimiento Foundation builds its community programs and improves individual children's lives, throughout Latin America. When you become an Angel and adopt a center you are becoming a partner of the Esperanza Movimiento Foundation. We are your eyes, ears, and hands working in the fields. Without you our work would be non-existent.

The Adopt-A-Center program makes it possible for caring individual donors and organizations to help children in need, to provide programs that truly result in lasting change. We are rescuing children from the streets and the sex trade industry. Providing them with hope for the future. Incorporating only the best practices, and using the latest monitoring and evaluation techniques. Our programs are based on meeting children's needs at key stages in their physical and intellectual development, from early childhood to adolescence. Our caring Angels have the joy in knowing that they are helping children and families in need, and contributing to the transformation of communities into havens of hope.

Our philosophy is based on the idea that a hand up is far more effective than a handout. Instead of giving money directly to children, our Casa de la Esperanza centers create community-based solutions that rescue children from the streets and from sexual slavery. Providing them with shelter, vital health, education, and social support services. By involving communities in the work we do, our goal is to create changes that will last, and not just help one generation of children and their families, but future generations as well.

With education and counseling as the principal goal of our programs, we focus on the core developmental stages and needs of children's lives.