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Organization Name: 
Centro Conviven
Located In: 
Mataderos, Argentina
Operates In: 
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Areas of Focus: 
  • Social Responsibility
  • Youth Development & Education
Type of Org: 
Volunteer Funded
Contact Person: 
Liis Kängsepp
Email: 
centroconviven@yahoo.com.ar
Phone: 
54-686-5995
Website: 
www.centroconviven.org.ar
 
Our Mission: 
Conviven is an NGO oriented to promote and favour social and community development for children, teenagers, young people, and families living in one of the most impoverished neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires – nicknamed Villas Miserias (Misery Slums). We are talking about Ciudad Oculta (The Hidden City) at the border of Mataderos and Villa Lugano, where around 16,000 people live in marginality, and below the poverty line.

What We Do: 
Through Conviven, we instrument multiple prevention programs oriented towards infants, children and adolescents. Conviven targets populations from the Barrio General Belgrano, Villa 15, Ciudad Oculta, and Lugano, one of the neighborhoods labeled as a Priority Action neighborhood. Our challenge is to create a recreational, formative, andeducational space, that can give possibility to children, youth and adolescents of both sexes. We hope to re-enforce their education, or re-insert them into the educational system, provide athletic, social and cultural activities.



Conviven's mission is to create a space that fulfils the following objectives:



* Provide a nurturing and caring environment in all activities
* Create bonds of friendship and healthy co-living
* Establish practical and fair discipline
* Share and restore moral and ethical principles
* Provide adequate educational classes
* Provide occupational training



Among the many problems created by the national socio-economic crisis, in a country where every day 55 children die during the lactation phase as a result of poverty, there has been a high growth in social marginality in the past years. This growth affects all generations, and in particular, children, adolescents and young people that come from under-resourced homes lacking basic neccessities. This situation stems from lost familial expectations and hope, with limited clean living space during youth and adolescence. As a result, there has been an increase of certain problems such as educational desertion, delinquency, juvenile prostitution, drug addiction and alcoholism.

 
Location: Argentina  |  10/25/07
Here's a link to the run down of what we are currently doing in Conviven...feel free to contact us with new ideas too! http://centroconviven.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-could-you-do-at-conviven.html
Location: Argentina  |  10/25/07
To find out more check out our blog in English : http://centroconviven.blogspot.com Para conocer mejor a Conviven, da una vuela en nuestro blog en castellano: http://conviven.blogspot.com/
 
 
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