Daniëlle
Children's Fund |
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Children’s Fund is a non-profit charity organisation,
based in the Netherlands. Our mission is to help children
in need in Nepal and Ecuador. We focus mainly on educational,
social and medical support. We strongly feel the need
to share with the children what God is giving to us.
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both countries we run two types of programs:
- Family support.
- Children´s homes.
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family support program in Ecuador aims to help poor
families with children to finance educational and medical
costs. Often children are working in the street in order
to make some extra income for the family. They cannot
go to school. In Ecuador no education means no hope
for the future! Supporting a child will not only help
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Our
childrens´ home, Clarita Luz, is located in Ambato.
It offers a temporary home to children in need, with the
aim to reunite them with their familis. Many kids in Ambato
live in the streets for economic reasons, even though
they do have parents or family. It is our strong belief
that, if possible, a child should always live with its
own family!
When a child enters Clarita Luz we will provide what the
child needs. Especially love! At the same time we will
prepare the child to go to its real home. During this
process we will be working with the child and the family.
Replacing a child is a long-term process, which will continue
after the child has left Clarita Luz.
The
Daniëlle Children’s Fund is looking for people
and companies who would like to support our projects
in Ecuador and Nepal.
In the Netherlands DCF works only through volunteers.
Therefore we have no overhead costs. Every pound, dollar
or Euro you donate goes straight to the children and
the children´s homes.
"After
travelling in Africa, Russia and Romania, and seeing
these children first hand, I simply could not forget
them. I decided to leave my job in the city of London
and went to work in a children hospital in Nepal. Personally
I believe it is a privilege to share with other people
what God has given to us and I feel very gifted."
Helma
van der Hoeven
DCF Director |
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The
Street Children in Ecuador
As
Ecuadorians we are; grateful for being
fortunate enough to be able to have access
to education, we feel strongly a social
responsibility to help the most vulnerable
members of our society: the street children.
According to the
Latin American Press, 10.000 children
work and live in the streets of the cities
of Ecuador. They have made the streets
their own home. Outside a modest restaurant
at night in Quito, a little ten year old
boy named Robert tearfully recounts: "I
work to make my living, so that I can
buy food and help my grandmother."
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Many
children like Robert who sells newspapers, sweets,
or clean windshields inhale glue to escape from
consciousness and the painful reality of hunger.
These cases are part of the sad urban reality
of the major cities of our country. |
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"Life
in Ecuador is not easy. The life
of a street child in Ecuador, however, is extremely
difficult and dangerous.
There are many of these children... no house,
no food, no love. For most of the tourists they
are part of the city landscape. It’s something
people come to expect in third world countries.
No real surprise. Sad. To give them a dollar is
often a reason to forget them a few minutes later.
Many do not realise that these children are real.
Little human beings with hunger for food, for
warmth and for love. Unfortunately, they do not
disappear when the tourist turns the corner of
the street."
Helma van der Hoeven
Andeanface is directly
linked with projects to help these kids, as
one of its directors Helma van der Hoeven -
is the founder of the Daniëlle Children’s
Fund (
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a charity organisation from the Netherlands
which helps children in need.
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Clarita
Luz Children's Home
It
has taken one and a half years to start,
but finally we are there!. Clarita Luz
is a real children’s home, which
helps poor kids.
Andeanface and the Daniëlle Children’s
Fund created it to offer a temporary
home to children who cannot live with
their own parents, for a particular
reason. In the city of Ambato there
are many street kids. Many come from
indigenous communities around the city.
Some are orphans, but often the parents
abandon their children for economic
reasons. In these cases Clarita Luz
does everything to reunite the child
with its own birth family. When this
is not possible an alternative family
is sought. Clarita Luz believes that
a child is always better off living
in a real family.
During their temporary stay, Clarita
Luz offers the children not only the
basic necessities of life, like a roof,
food and clothes. It will also be working
to build the child's future and self-esteem
by providing education, love and care.
Clarita
Luz started it's operations in June
2006. Currently there are around 10
to 14 children aged from 2 to 11 years
old. The voluntary work program at Clarita
Luz consist of helping to take care
of the children, teaching English, to
construct more rooms, to paint and to
maintain the garden. In other words…
there is lots to do!
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