Or an evening meal? A bunch of flowers or a bottle of wine?
In Ecuador, people's need is often so great that they are prepared to take on any job, including shady activities or even murder. For as little as 10 dollars, people are often willing to kill someone.

Many children and young people who attend the workshops of our prevention programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay have lost family members in this way or know that they have murderers among their relatives. With us, the children and young people often hear for the first time that their lives are worth something and that there is a future for them. They also learn to respect and value the lives of others. They learn not to be indifferent to life's challenges, but to overcome problems and grow from them.
Our teams support them in many aspects of life. The children and young people forge new friendships with their peers in the prevention programs and develop a perspective for their lives. Many of them manage to avoid ending up on the streets and getting stuck in teenage pregnancies or gang wars. Instead, they finish school and manage to get a job or a place at university.

For the children for whom our targeted support is not enough, we have built Transformation Houses so that they can escape their previous environment. Because in many cases this is so terrible that it is impossible for them to stay there. Some children come to us directly from the street. For example, a prostitute gave us her toddler and asked us to look after him. The woman has since died of Aids.
Other children were sent to relatives with the promise of a better education, where they were exploited as cheap labor or lost on the streets of the big cities. Some children were passed from parents to relatives, from relatives to neighbors, and then the neighbors sent them from orphanage to orphanage. As a result, these children carry the deep scars that there is no place for them anywhere in this world.

But there is a place for them - in our Transformation Houses. The name says it all: In these homes, they can grow up long-term and work through old experiences and wounds. They become part of a new family and discover the talents that lie within them.
Every single one of them is a precious treasure. It is our desire to seek out these children, to encourage them to discover their personality and let it shine.