what vulnerability means to the center:

 

The Center’s Social Team uses the data collected from family interviews to help understand the vulnerable situations in which Center members are living. Some risk factors that affect our community are:

  • family income is less than the Ecuadorian minimum wage
    ($450 per month)

  • lack of basic utilities in the home
    (e.g. running water, electricity, etc.)

  • a single parent household, especially single mothers

  • the ratio of provider and dependents is greater than 1:2

  • adolescent pregnancy

389 families in the center’s care.

center member nationalities.

*In percentages.

 

average Center Family:

5 MEMBERS

grade level breakdown.

  • Childhood Development Centers (CDCs):
    153 children between the ages of 1 and 3 years old

  • Center students - kindergarten through high school: 336 students

 

THE average center family has A
MONTHLY INCOME OF JUST OVER $360.

family makeup.

*In percentages.

 

75% of Center families have left poverty forever.

During its 57 years of service and accompaniment of the most vulnerable families in Quito, the Center has supported more than 6,000 families – more than 30,000 individuals – on their journey of empowerment. The skills learned, the support received, and the community made has positively affected the Centers community’s growth as both individuals and as families. Through its multi-lateral approach to address poverty, the Cener’s work goes directly to the source of the issue rather than addressing the various symptoms.

For more than 5 decades, the Center has graduated over 5,000 technicians in the different specialties, all of whom have become agents of change in society. The member families have changed their way of life thanks to their commitment to the Center’s mission, their active participation in the comprehensive programming and services, their education, and spiritual formation based on family values. They have learned to be agents of sustainable human development, of their own prosperity, and the prosperity of their communities.