Fundación Pro Niños de la Calle, I.A.P.

The youngster and the street

In our city there are numerous youngsters who, after suffering abuse, rejection, indifference or deprivation are forced to leave their homes. They live in abandoned houses, bus stations, garbage dumps and sewers. In the streets, they learn to dodge all kinds of dangers and develop their survival skills. They usually use toxic inhalants and they sink into a process of physical and emotional decay from which it is very difficult to recover.

There are already several institutions that tend to these children. Usually, their approach to the problem is based on providing them a place to live.

However, a significant number of these children leave these programs and end up only using the facilities whenever they need to, in and out of institutions, without achieving any real change in their lives.