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Gurisaes Project |
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| Project name |
Daily Nutrition program and training workshops |
| Year started |
1989 |
| Location |
Villa Muñoz y Goes, Montevideo |
| Area of work |
Education |
| Beneficiaries in 2011 |
130 children y 50 teens |
| Start of support |
2007 |
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| The institution |
The Obra Don Orione Gurisaes Project provides care for children and teens at social risk and living on the streets of the Villa Muñoz-Goes neighborhood of Montevideo. The goal of the professionals in charge of the institution is to educate the children and teens to successfully in develop life plans for themselves. To do this, the project promotes the development of the children in atmosphere of human warmth, containment and positive stimulus but also teaches them limits. The Villa Muñoz-Goes neighborhood suffers from a severe lack of resources and is plagued by drug, crime and violence related problems.
More than 180 children and young people attend the Gurisaes center in three shifts of activities. The first two periods, morning and afternoon, are for the Children's Club (4 to 11 years) while the Youth Club (12 to 18 years) operates during the evening shift. |
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| The project |
All the kids who come to the center are included in the Daily Nutrition Program where main meals are served: breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. In 2011 Reaching U funded this program together with additional training workshops and classes for 130 children and 50 adolescents. In addition, the kids attend workshops on cooking, music, leadership, directed play, IT, vocational guidance and job placement, along with school and high school support. The aim of the workshops is to reinforce and complement the knowledge they acquire in the formal education system.
In 2011, Reaching U also funded the rehabilitation and improvement of the bakery space to provide advanced vocational classes for the young people enrolled in the bakery workshop. |
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| Achievements with Reaching U's support… |
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2008 - 2010: funding of the Daily Nutrition Program , which feeds 200 children every day, and training workshops. In 2010 funding was also provided for the washing area of the laundry trays, cutlery and other kitchen utensils that are used for the daily meals, cooking workshops and baking activities. Funds were provided to repair a skylight that affected the building maintenance.
- 2007: funding for the construction of two restrooms for preschool children attending the educational and recreational activities performed in the center.
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