2024
Collaborate for the Arts: Help Renovate Rafaela’s Cultural Center
The Rafaela City Center (Centro Ciudad de Rafaela) is a non-profit organization that strives to promote and support various performing arts activities, focusing primarily on theater, but also including other disciplines such as choir, reading, magic, dance, and visual arts. The organization aims to create and support networks with the community, public and private institutions, and their artistic collectives to better support artistic activity in the city and throughout the country on a continuous basis. The institution’s members are driven by their passion for their work, commitment to the development of the arts, and social consciousness.
The Foundation can provide materials and labor for the realization of a removable ceiling for the multipurpose room.
Here can read more about the project.
2023
Air conditioning in Chaco to guarantee education
Jesús María school is in Tres Isletas located in the heart of the Chaquenean region, northern Argentina, approximately 200 km from Resistencia, the capital of the province of Chaco. With an extremely hot climate, its minimum temperature in winter is around 15°C and in summer can reach 50°C. Chaco is one of the provinces with the greatest needs in Argentina and Tres Isletas does not escape this reality: nearly 50% of its population is an alphabet, and the majority of this population lives in the Nueva Alianza neighborhood – where the Jesús María school is located – including the vulnerable Qom aboriginal community, which represents about 2,000 people.
Two air conditioning units are needed (one for each room) that require AR$1,046,000 for the purchase of the air conditioning equipment, and AR$112,000 for its installation.
Read more about this project here.
2022
Bernardino Rivadavia School
The Bernardino Rivadavia School No. 475 in the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe, teaches primary level classes to more than 400 students. In addition, the school has a carpentry workshop, in which a three-year training course for adults is offered during the night shift. This course allows adult students to learn a trade and thus obtain an economic income that, in many cases, is what gives them sustenance.
MUCAR, Rosario
The Blind and Amblyopia Unit Movement of Rosario MUCAR (by its acronym in Spanish) is a foundation that defends the rights of people with visual disabilities and promotes an environment of social integration through workshops, talks, cultural activities, and sale of products for the blind since 1981.
2020
Foundation Manos Abiertas – Shelter Home Madre de la Ternura (Mar del Plata)
The Shelter Home Madre de la Ternura (Mother of Tenderness) of the Manos Abiertas (Open Arms) Foundation in Mar del Plata (address: calle Corrientes 3264) offers shelter and protection to mothers and little children in fragile situations. The house in which the shelter is established is owned by the Manos Abiertas Foundation. It is located three blocks from the Maternal and Children’s Hospital, which facilitates medical care for the mothers and their children. The surface area of the house is 325 m² and is more than 60 years old. It has a kitchen-refectory, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a living room, a storage room, a laundry room, a covered arcade and a courtyard. The roof is made of fibre-cement and metal plates. Due to ageing of the materials the roof is deteriorated, causing water leaks in the house. On the other hand, there are plans to expand the facilities, in order to be able to attend more mothers in a vulnerable situation. Therefore, the proposition of the project is the reparation of the roof and a stone construction.
People’s Library Sarmiento – Second part
The Biblioteca Popular Sarmiento (People’s Library Sarmiento) in Tandil is a civil non-profit organization. Not only does it provide services to librarians, it also provides an area to develop educational activities, to give professional technical trainings to vulnerable sectors of society, who don’t have the opportunity to receive education, leading to employment. Also, the area will be used to realize socio-cultural activities, linked to art, literature, music, theater, etc.
2019
Is a non-profit organisation founded in 2010. Their primary activities consist of managing and implementing of projects, mostly at schools that lack/show gaps in their basic needs and/or education.
2018
People’s Library Sarmiento (Tandil) First Part
The Biblioteca Popular Sarmiento (People’s Library Sarmiento) in Tandil is a civil non-profit organization. Not only does it provide services to librarians, it also provides an area to develop educational activities, to give professional technical trainings to vulnerable sectors of society, who don’t have the opportunity to receive education, leading to employment. Also, the area will be used to realize socio-cultural activities, linked to art, literature, music, theater, etc.
Is a non-profit organisation made up of about 20 volunteers who in their childhood were members of the Don Bosco band. Its main objectives are to promote the artistic abilities of children and social support. They have also contributed to several afforestation projects in the province of Tucumán and realised several projects in low-income rural areas.
Asociación Pro Ayuda Discapacitados Rafaela is an NGO dedicated to assist persons with differently abled capacities in order to improve the quality of their life and to bring them dignity as human beings. Between 90 to 110 disabled children of the age of 0 to 14 years attend the school of the organization annually. The majority of these children live in an urban area of the city of Rafaela.
The Fundación AVENIR is building, with support of CONADIS (Commission for the Integration of the Disabled) of the Argentinian State, the Education and Therapy Center and the Support for Integration into ordinary Schools in the neighborhood Villa 9 de julio in Arguello, northwest of the city of Córdoba. This is a suburban area where basic needs of assistance and social integration of children and adolescents with a mental disability are not met.
Is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to contribute to the development of rural schools located near the Ruta Nacional 40. They believe that strengthening rural schools will promote equal educational opportunities and that a better education reflects in a better society.
Is an association whose objective is to have pupils of public schools in rural areas of Argentina complete their primary school, preparing them for the local labour market and making it possible for them to stay in the area. The Argentine-Dutch Solidarity Foundation will donate 30 water filters through APAER
2017
Haciendo Camino Asociación Civil
The project aims to support two programs of Haciendo Camino: vocational training and nutrition.
The Senior Center is a day care facility for 16 persons (men and women) over 65 years and encourages elderly to stay in their community.
Sierra Dorada Foundation is an NGO dedicated to the upbringing of children and adolescents in vulnerable situations in San Marcos de la Sierra,situated in the north of the Córdoba province. Its main objective is to improve the living conditions of children in vulnerable situations.
2016
Shelters for girls and young women been victims of violence, sexual abuse, negligence and human trafficking. The girls receive shelter, food, an education and there is special attention for their health. Furthermore they get psychological support and guidance on how to return to their families, if this is possible.
Rural School nr. 158 boards children who live in places that lack transportation. The general objective is to supply the boarding school with low cost solar energy to enable the use of technological and pedagogical tools during school hours. Materials will be bought and teachers and technical staff need to be trained to ensure the maintenance of this system.