Fundación Palliri
Fundación Palliri is a non-profit children's aid program in the highlands of the South American Andean state of Bolivia . In January 2016, the children's mission organization "Die Sternsinger" placed the support of the Palliri project at the center of this year's Three Kings collection campaign.
Emergence
With the aim of creating a place of encounter, togetherness and education for children and adolescents, the sisters of the "Compañía de Maria" order founded a football school in 2007 in a southern suburb of El Alto , a former suburb and now neighboring town of La Paz . Children and adolescents from difficult social backgrounds should be targeted in order to give them the opportunity for joint sporting activities, and at the same time to prevent crime, drug and alcohol abuse and dropping out of school. Most of the families in El Alto live below the subsistence level, family structures are falling apart, unemployment, domestic violence and crime shape the image of the city, and children in particular suffer from these conditions.
Projects
The Fundacion Palliri is divided into five project areas:
In the Palliri Kindergarten, over one hundred children between eight months and five years of age are looked after around the clock and are given several healthy meals a day, which is the exception in El Alto
The Palliri Center is open to children and adolescents from the age of six, a psychologist and several social workers look after the children, who are involved in leisure activities here and can do homework as well as work on the computer and receive a warm meal
Around one hundred girls and boys between the ages of six and sixteen train at the Palliri football school four days a week, supported by two coaches who teach them football skills, fair play, team spirit and perseverance
Ten permanent seamstresses work in the Palliri factory in the heart of El Alto, mostly parents of the children looked after in the Palliri projects, who mainly produce work and school clothes, but also shirts, blouses and evening dresses
The clothes from the sewing workshop are offered and sold in two boutiques in the neighboring city of La Paz, and the proceeds from the sewing workshop and the boutiques are now an important source of income for the project.
Cooperations
The foundation looks back on over twenty years of history and covers the areas of education , health care , prevention , protection and empowerment of women , technical training , civic participation , social control and environmental protection . It works closely with numerous public and private institutions, with ministries, the prefecture, technical colleges, universities, citizens' groups and Radio Otra Onda .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rural exodus in Bolivia Caritas International 2015
- ↑ http://www.fundacionpalliri.org/proyectos/