Step 3 Projects - Currently serving over 80 individual children and hundreds of families

What is a Step 3 Project?
Eagle Condor Humanitarian is committed to implementing long term solutions for children, families and communities. Step 3 projects are able to build upon the previous steps and implement self-sustaining industries, micro-loan training and high education for all who have met the requirements. Step 3 projects utilize one or more elements:
  • Micro Enterprise Development & Loans - Help to develop or expand a business through training, consulting, mentors & support for obtaining financial credit if needed
  • Higher Education - Entrance fees paid for college entrance exams for those who qualify
Current Step 3 Projects:

Aldea Infantil, Peru
Aldea Infantil is an orphanage to the south of Trujillo, Peru, managed by Sra. Blanca Esther Castillo Martell. Homes in this orphanage (shelters housing 10 children each with a small kitchen and living room) are a European concept built with government aid. Up-keep, daily needs of the children and educational programs have been left to those running the home. Over 80 children at the Aldea Infantil work their land and have established a successful strawberry industry (they are delicous!), have a growing guinea pig production (they are big!) and are planning to create a dairy. Blanca, and Aldea Infantil, has partnered with Southern Cross for internships to work one-on-one with children to help them develop skills for personal growth and self-reliance.

Aldea Infantil

Blanca Castillo, the amazing women who runs the Aldea, is shown here in the middle.
She is surrounded by the women who help her and on her right, Professor Alberto Puertas,
who as a member of the Southern Cross Board, manages internships for dozens of students each year.


Micro-Loan Communities
Chiclayo - Chiclayo is the fourth largest city in Peru, with approximately one million inhabitants. It was founded in the 16th century as an outlying district of the older town of Lambayeque. The unemployment rate unfortunately reaches more than 60% in this area. Sixty-four percent of the families in Lambayeque department are categorized as the poorest of the poor (living on less than $1 per person per day). There are few programs in the north area to help small businesses to develop and grow. Countless families survive on a budget of $US 30.00 a month. Many families live outside Chiclayo in sandy desert areas without water, sewer systems and sometimes electricity. Those that have employment are often underpaid; have to work long hours and more than five day a week including holidays and Sundays to keep their jobs. The migration to other countries or to Lima is high, not always solving their problems.


For more information, and the opportunity to support Step 3 projects, please go to: Sponsor-A-Project

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