CASA DE PASO

TRANSFORMING SUFFERING INTO HAPPINESS

DRUGS PREVENTION, FAMILY REINTEGRATION, EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

One of the problems that Bolivia faces are the high annual prevalence rates of licit and illicit drug use, by the school-age population between 13 and 17 years of age: 35.4% consume alcohol; 12.5% tobacco; and, the average consumption of marijuana, inhalants, base paste, cocaine and other illicit drugs reaches 5.1%)

Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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children and adolescents between 8 to 16 yrs. benefited

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professionals and volunteers

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years serving the most needy

“Casa de Paso” project shelters homeless children and adolescents between 8 and 16 years old, exposed to situations of risk, marginalization, social exclusion, and all the states of vulnerability that accompany being homeless.

The project develops its work in the context of socio-family inclusion under the systemic intervention model. This is where the family is considered as a system with its own identity and an internal and an external dynamic evolutionary development process.

In this model the transcendence is from the individual to the systems, with the family having special importance, as it is the social group where the most important and significant relationships take place.

The problems of children and adolescents are defined by the typology and characteristics of each of them, for this reason the approach assumed by the project is based on a personalized approach considering the problems of each one of the beneficiaries and guides our work in the components of the intervention model, under the following strategic guidelines:

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Aimed at prevention, family reintegration, educational support, and independence processes in favor of children and adolescents.