Step 1 Projects - Currently serving almost 300 children

What is a Step 1 Project?
Eagle Condor Humanitarian (ECH) is committed to implementing long term solutions for children, families and communities. The first step is to focus on basic needs as the priority as children require these for the foundation of personal growth and development. To change the generational cycle of poverty, you must start with the children. Our objective is to enhance the ability of children so they can more fully acquire the skills and tools needed to become positive contributing members of their communities. Step 1 projects all utilize one or more elements:

  • Healthy food
  • Safe Shelter
  • Hygiene training
  • Volunteer medical and/or dental attention

Current Step 1 Projects:
Iltaqui and Jawapamba, Ecuador:
This project focuses on feeding over 100 children who are currently attending schools in rural and low-income communities where government food rarely arrives. The purpose is to keep children from going hungry to allow them to focus on their education. Ironically, young children go with nothing to eat due to the fact that both parents spend the entire day away working in the fields. While visiting there, we found a very young girl crying from want of food. Upon interviewing local community members, it was found that this is a common occurrence and children often miss classes due to leaving school during the day to find food. Regular food at school will promote regular school attendance. In 2010 the school was cleaned top to bottom and a kitchen was built to provide food to stay in school. ECH is sponsoring food in these schools and the 2011 expedition projects will focus on additional projects at the schools including creating a school garden for self-sustainability.

 
Iltaqui
  
Jawapamba


Yantalo, Peru:


    
Yantalo Video
With the help of the Yantalo Peru Foundation, volunteers give back to the community of Yantalo, Peru.
    
Preview to a documentary in progress
With the help of the Yantalo Peru Foundation, volunteers give back to the community of Yantalo, Peru.
   
El Bichito, Peru (The Little Bug)

 The "Little Bug" is located in the small town of Puyllucana, in the province of Cajamarca, Peru (2,500mts above sea level), about an hour flight from Lima, Peru. This center was started by Graciela Colle, from Argentine descent, who after a trip to Peru began thinking of ways to help the children she saw on the streets. With the help of Ms. Feliciana Quiliche, who now runs the kitchen at “El Bichito 189", this home serves over 70 children. Eagle Condor has partnered with Graciella and has renovated the first floor and completed construction on the second story which includes rooms for interns, a bathroom and a soon to be established literacy center and computer lab. The 2011 expedition project will include work on these and working to build the third story to provide more long term skill training workshops. Connections have been made with the local university to provide remedial classes for the older children at $81 a quarter and university classes at $100 a quarter. At this time, we have three young boys who are enrolled in the local university.

Felicianna
Felicianna - this wonderful woman
runs El Bichito!
















Semillas de Amor "Seeds of Love", Colombia:
On average nearly 100 children are served food each day at Semillas de Amor by three caring volunteers. For most children, this is their only meal of the day. Seeds of Love is in a part of Cartagenia called "New Colombia" where children and families have been displaced due to war and violence in the region over many years. Most of the children served in this center have handicaps and their caretakers are struggling to provide the basics for themselves and their children. A generous donation from our chapter in Canada provided the "seed" money to begin a chicken industry which is proving to be very successful for this home and their desire for self-reliance. We are working to partner with the local school to provide a kitchen to encourage all these children to enroll and attend daily classes.


















Alegria de Vivir “Joy of Life”, Colombia:
Alegria de Vivir, serves children in Turbaco, Colombia and focuses on children with special needs, many with debilitating handicaps. Local volunteers work to bring volunteer medical care and treatments to each child and organize activities to help feed the children. Eagle Condor would like to increase the funding for this home in order to provide more food and specialized medical attention to change the future of these children.


















For more information, and the opportunity to support Step 1 projects, please go to: Sponsor-A-Child

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