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La Chureca school program The Vocational Institute “Crecer” is a project that works through the Organization Christ for the Poor, with offices in Puerto Rico and Miami, FL. En el vertedero municipal de Managua, denominado "La Chureca", trabajan alrededor de 400 niños (as) y jóvenes con un alto riesgo de maltrato físico y verbal, violación y en muchos casos extremos hasta la muerte. |
Programa: Get Sober La adicción a las drogas, drogadicción o fármaco dependencia es el uso compulsivo de sustancia a pesar de los efectos negativos y a veces peligrosos. Por otro lado el abuso de drogas es el uso de una droga (legal, ilegal o medicamento) en forma excesiva o para fines para los cuales no estaban médicamente propuesta. |
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La violencia Domestica En el campo de la psicología, sociología y de trabajo social todos los argumentos sobre la violencia doméstica explican las causas sociales o psicológicas del problema. Ya es un rosario sabido que el niño maltratado será un padre maltratante, que el niño criado en un ambiente de maltrato repetirá la conducta de los padres... y por supuesto es causa y efecto que tiene mucho valor en los deponentes. |
HIV Vitamin Program Studies show that the majority of those who are HIV-positive are likely to have major deficiencies of a slew of vitamins and minerals at different stages of the disease. A study at the University of Miami of 112 men who were HIV-positive, for example, found that 67 percent had at least one nutrient deficiency, while 36 percent had more than one. Thirty percent were deficient in vitamin B6, 30 percent in zinc, 20 percent in vitamin E, 16 percent in vitamin A and 11 percent in vitamin B12. Christ for the Poor provides nutritional education and vitamin supplements HIV infected residents of La Chureca. |
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In His Own Words- Daniel's StoryMy name is Daniel Santos Garcia Picado and I am 25 years old. I live in Managua, Nicaragua. I was born and raised in very poor and humble family. My mother raised me and my five siblings while working as a domestic servant. My brothers and I helped subsidized my Mama’s earnings by making and selling tortillas of the streets of DE Acahualinca a barrio de Managua. My father abandoned us since the time we were small children. He never supported us. At the age of twelve, I began working at the garbage dump called the La Chureca picking up discarded aluminum, iron, paper and anything else that could be sold to recycling outlets. |
Message from our FounderChrist for the Poor was born of God’s spirit. This spirit moved the hearts and minds of those whose concern it is to do their part in improving the future of humanity. As much as our world is a place of incomparable beauty, in many places, it is also one in which there exists war, hunger, sickness, and where many feel distanced and isolated from their fellowman. “Christ for the Poor” came into being because of a need to help thousands of those who are destitute. |
La Chureca
Roughly over a hundred and seventy different families reside in Managua, Nicaragua's City dump. La Chureca which is street slang for garbage dump has be come a rallying point in Nicaragua fight against poverty. It has become to symbolize the life and death struggle which a few measly sell sellable items become the source of sustenance. As is common is such oppressed areas the typical scrounges become pronounced. Woman and young girls of all ages sell their bodies in order to survive. STD'S and Prostitution are rampant. Moreover drug use among the residents is prevalent. Many of the poorest resort to sniffing glue as a method of hunger suppression. Recently,. the United Nations estimates that between 35 – 45 % of the Central American population live in gross poverty and extreme want. Dumpsites and hillsides are crawling with tens of thousands of squatters who put up dwellings of plastic and cardboard trying to eke out some measure of life. These primitive camps without electricity, sewers, or clean water exist along expressway roads and in the midst of cities.
Christ for the Poor - Our Mission
Christ for the Poor is a (pending)non-profit organization which helps educate the members of the communities that we serve, and to contributes to the development and growth of such communities. Our focus is to increase awareness of the need for education through active teaching. Additionally, we will provide vocational training as a way to empower the residents of La Chureca. Our Programs are not limited to La Churecan community but have growth to represent all disenpowered comunity members in Nicaragua and Guatemala .
