Step 3 Projects - Currently serving over 80 Children

What is a Step 3 Project?
Southern Cross Humanitarian is committed to implementing long term solutions for children-at-risk through humanitarian projects.  We focus on basic needs as the priority as children require these for the foundation of personal growth and development.  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 3 projects utilize interns working one-on-one with children to implement one or more of the following elements:

  • Access skill based opportunities & projects to develop self-reliance
  • Discover social identity and self-worth

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.


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

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