The Tahuantinsuyo Youth Centre provides a safe space in a very rough neighbourhood in El Alto Bolivia where kids can go after school to eat lunch, get help with homework, receive academic tutoring, and wait for their parents to get home from work. Alma pays for two teachers who provide tutoring and homework assistance to the […]
Alma Kids is a new initiative by Alma, focused on inspiring children in Toronto to make a difference. Alma Kids will participate in leadership development events where they learn how to make an impact abroad as well as in their local communities. They will have the opportunity to communicate in Spanish with children from Latin […]
In the Tilata neighbourhood, outside of the city of El Alto, Alma supports the Sariry Foundation, a small organization (we are one of only three supporters of Sariry) that cares for the educational and personal development of 500 children who live in the area. The Sariry Foundation works with at-risk youths in their own classrooms […]
It is estimated that in Bolivia there are approximately 800,000 children living in the streets: boys, girls, and teenagers who have partially or totally broken with their family ties and who live – in the absolute sense of the word – in the streets. The Alalay Foundation, a Bolivian charity has been working with this […]
The Library Kallpanchis is a long-running project set up by the community of Villa Maria in the Northern suburbs of the city of Cusco and the organization HoPe (Holanda-Perú). It started when a group of young people from the community won a box of books in a dance competition in 2006 and decided to start […]
Only 4% of children with disabilities in Cusco receive a formal education. Manos Unidas is a registered Peruvian Non-Profit Organization that founded the first and only private/non-for-profit school for Special Education in Cusco, el “Centro de Educacion Basica Especial Particular “Camino Nuevo” in 2009. Manos Unida’s mission is to maximize the abilities and potential of […]
El Manguaré was founded in 2009 with the mission to better the quality of life of children in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods of the city of Iquitos. Iquitos is the capital city of the region of Loreto (Amazon jungle region), which is the poorest performing region in Peru in reading comprehension and mathematical reasoning. There […]
The Asociación La Restinga works towards the improvement of educational quality and graduation rates in the Belen neighbourhood of Iquitos, Peru. Each year the project runs seven teacher training workshops, weekly classroom evaluations, weekly student academic reinforcement workshops (two times per week, lasting three hours each), and four parent workshops. The hired teachers also visit the […]