Our SALEM centre in Mindo, Ecuador, looks after the most underprivileged children and young people of the village. We try to offer them extensive care and find solutions to their most urgent problems.

Children’s home

There are currently 13 children between 7 and 13 years old in the SALEM children’s home. They stay from Monday to Friday at SALEM and go home to their families over the weekend.

Children and youth centre

The children and youth centre operates as a day care centre attended by 25 to 30 children and young people. Here, they can discover their own abilities and learn to put ideas into action. Local teachers help with homework and our qualified staff offer many possibilities for the children to apply what they have learned. In the craft studio and the sewing studio they can enjoy practical work with many different tools and materials, improving skills and creativity.

Sponsorship Programme

Your sponsorship of the SALEM children in Mindo not only helps the those in the children’s home and the day centre but also enables about 40 more local children to attend school. We support them with school materials, uniforms and, of course, we are ready to listen to their parents’ worries. The sponsorship programme also contributes to improvements in the infrastructure of the SALEM children’s home.

For further information on how your financial backing will help please see the Sponsorship for Ecuador page here.

‘Comedor Comunitario’

Our vegetarian ‘soup kitchen’ offers a wide variety of dishes for people in need, including the young, elderly and disabled alike. Every day, about 40 people are provided with a good meal here.

Working together with local organisations

While co-operating with other local environmental groups, some of our work consists of teaching about reusing and recycling, as well as general education about the care and protection of the environment.

Respect for life

Through our work, we wish to make a contribution to create a better world where humanity and respect for the environment matters more than money. Our main principles are:

  • Living in cooperation with nature
  • Adopting a vegetarian diet
  • Compassion and understanding for minorities
  • Dignity for human rights and other ways of thinking
  • Love towards animals, plants and life as a whole
  • Christian ethics

Volunteering at SALEM Ecuador

We are always looking for motivated people who are eager to contribute to our work with the children.
Read more about volunteering at the SALEM centre in Mindo here!

Contact

For further information about SALEM Ecuador, please contact: salem-ecuador@salem-mail.net

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