Project Overview

In partnership with: CVI (Children’s Vision International)

Background

On any given night, in the streets of Bogotá, Colombia, there are approximately 13,000 children without a home and most have no one to care for them. Some call them the generation of invisible children. They have no name and no nationality, they have never been legally registered - to some, they do not exist.

Children's Vision International has heard their cry and answers the need by providing a safe, loving home to these children. With the help of mission teams and generous donations, they are giving new life and hope to the children of Bogotá and beyond.

Their first home, Genesis House, opened in 1993. This is the rescue centre for the home.Here they take in infants and small children - children that live in boxes underneath bridges; children that not only endure birth defects, but are victims of neglect and abuse. Most children that they receive into the home suffer from chronic malnutrition, bronchitis, parasites, as well other intestinal diseases. They are children whose parents are drug addicts, prostitutes, delinquents, or victims of war who were forced to leave their homeland and are unable to provide and care for them. Genesis House can care for up to forty children ranging in age from birth to age eight.

The Project

“Genesis House” was the first children's home but as it is an older house there has been more and more required of a very old electrical installation. Plan is to rewire the whole building so that it is set up for the needs of the foundation and the children into the future.

Skills required

• Three electricians
• Three labourers
• A number of people to work with the children

Number on team

Up to 12 people.

When?

November 2010

To make the project viable we would ask for a donation of:

£1200.00

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