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Casa De paz

A New Program In The Southern Barrios Of Bogotá

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Our Newest Program

Casa De Paz Is Changing Lives

Casas de Paz is a new program that is creating safe havens for youth.  Your donations help youth get off the streets and get help with homework, eat a meal, and participate in fun activities like break-dancing. Christ-committed volunteers build relationships with the kids they serve and share the good news of Jesus' love through conversations or Bible studies. These community centers strive to meet basic needs of the neighborhood while planting seeds for future churches to spring up. 

 

Casas de Paz is a developing project in a very poor neighborhood in the southern barrios of Bogotá where many of the country's displaced populations have resettled. There is little infrastructure and few city services: roads are haphazard, often unnamed and unpaved; police rarely patrol or intervene in violent situations. Safety and sanitation are privileges. 

 

Children attend school for 4 hours either in the morning or in the afternoon and there are no programs or options for childcare when they aren't in school. Working parents, many of whom are single mothers, often commute 2-3 hours across the city to jobs in more affluent neighborhoods in the north. Their children are unsupervised for the majority of the day. In an area where drugs and prostitution abound, these vulnerable kids are easy prey. Many end up joining gangs, using and trafficking drugs, stealing, or becoming pregnant at a young age. The cycle of poverty is vicious and difficult to break.

 

2,000

The estimated # of youth who live on the streets in Bogata

Inequality is High.

40% of the total income is controlled by only 7% of the city's population

Around 87,000 children in Bogata engage in labour activities at an early age.  26 per cent of these children do not attend school. 

We Strive To Make Every Youth Feel Known, Loved, Seen, And Respected.

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Calle 53 No. 74a - 29
Barrio Normandía sector II
Bogotá, Colombia
Sud-América

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