Sonrisas para los Chicos Asociacion Civil
SonRisas works with the rights of the child, from its own spaces in the neighborhoods, creating the development framework for a dignified childhood in other to reach an adulthood with opportunities.
MISSION: Create a framework where children and adolescents can have a dignified childhood and reach adulthood with opportunities.
PROGRAMS:
Community Compensation
-Objective: To fight against food emergency, generating a sense of belonging, with concrete work and not in an assistance way, and also try to bring their children closer to our community.
-Description: Food aid is given to families in exchange for community work at the headquarters. A basket of food is two hours per week of social work.
-Target population: 420 families, 2500 people, from the neighborhoods of “Lauda”, “Chacritas” and “El Pantano”.
-Where takes place: Monte Grande, Municipality of Esteban Echeverría, Province of Buenos Aires.
Integral Education Device
-Objective: To Accompany the educational process of children and adolescents in the neighborhoods where we work.
-Description: A space that contains different educational proposals for the entire population that participates in SonRisas, divided into three large groups:
1) “Sonriseritos”: an early education space for 4 and 5 year olds who have not been able to find a vacant in the public kinder gardens in the area.
2) “Todos Leemos”: a literacy program for children and adolescents who do not know how to read and write despite the fact that they are going through the formal educational system.
3) “Educar y Crecer”: a space for systematized school support with manuals, guides and grading that accompanies the formal education school cycle.
-Target population: 890 children and adolescents from the neighborhoods of Lauda, Chacritas and El Pantano.
-Where takes place: Monte Grande, Municipality of Esteban Echeverría, Province of Buenos Aires.
Production device and job training
-Objective: To provide tools for economic independence, also create social links and generate spaces for creation, self-esteem and containment.
-Description: Training space in trades and productive enterprises for women responsible for children and adolescents participating in SonRisas.
-Target population: 320 women graduates in the last 4 years who are active in the program.
-Where takes place: Monte Grande, Municipality of Esteban Echeverría, Province of Buenos Aires.
Address: Luis de Sarro 1226 - Buenos Aires
Phone: 011-4290-1194
Support Our Work
Programs
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Lack of work and the need to create conditions for women breadwinners to have a place to train and produce
With 20 usd you can help an unemployed woman, who is a breadwinner, to acquire inputs and specific training to produce products from our workshops.
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School continuity and digital divide
With 30 USD you can sponsor a child for supplies, materials, teacher's time and internet connectivity to ensure that he or she does not lose his or her right to study. You can contribute monthly from your credit card or the number of months you want for a one-time payment.
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Food Emergency
With 80 USD you can ensure the food supplement for a family group for 30 days of the month. You can contribute monthly from your credit card or the number of months you want once only.