Part of Our Vision

We just wanted to share part of our vision with you. As we continue with our “casa hogar” (orphanage), our goal is not to have it set up like an institution. We want kids to know how to cope in family situations, how to be a family. What happens here most of the time is that children get put in institutions with many children. Since it is so difficult to adopt children here, they end up staying there until they are 18. Then they are on their own. They go out into the world and try to start a life, but have never had a family so don’t know how to have a functional family. It is a bad chain. We don’t want that for the children. We want them to experience living in a family. So we are hoping to set up family groups. There will be a max of 20 children living with a set of ‘parents’; a big family.
Right now we are in phase one of three to get to that goal. Phase one: add more rooms onto our house to be able to take in more children. Phase two: A large multi-purpose building with a dormitory, kitchen/dining area and a large multi-purpose room for classrooms. We hope to set up workshops to teach skills to the children that they can use when they leave (plumbing, electric, carpentry, jewelry making, tiling, making clothes, food). The dorm has an attached apartment for those that come to help. Phase three: an area completely separated from our house that will have lots of town houses for family groups and a recreation/education area. Someone has offered to donate the land for this project. If we use this land, we will need to dig a well and run electricity to the area.