Project 01/2020: Powerhouse for orphans and deprived children in the poor area of Concepcion del Uruguay/Argentina
The Association „Neues Leben South America e.V.” are active in this region since many years and their engagement is to help poor children, orphans and deprived children to offer them a perspective for a better life. They do have a cooperation partner, a Missionary Station Obra Misionara Nueva Vida located in Concordia. They erected a Children’s Home for scholar children and a Care Centre for small children from 0-4 years. These facilities are managed successfully by Erich and Celma Wuerfel in the city of Concordia since many years. Also they are managing a Powerhouse where children will be cared on every Satuday per week.
As this Powerhouse is very successful, they started a similar „Powerhouse“ for poor and deprived children in the urban region of North East of Argentina in Concepción del Uruguay, a city in the province Entre Rios close to the border to Uruguay. This region where unemployment, poverty, alcohol and drug abuse is a big problem, often family life is destroyed and especially the children are suffering the most from these circumstances. They grow up without love, without perspective outlook in their life, have no or poor access to education, social and personal development. This new Powerhouse is managed by the missionary couple Sittner.
At present in Concordia 91 poor and deprived children live and are being cared in the Children’s home. It is a daily refugee where they find care, help, love and education. They go to school in the suburbs and care helpers bring across to them life values, Christian values, warmth, social integration, school education including daily hospitality. The monthly costs for the Children’s Home for board and lodging, school equipment are rising up to approx. Euro 31.000.- and are mainly covered by private donations and financial contributions by the Association “Neues Leben South America e.V.” and their cooperation partner Obra Misionara Nueva Vida in Concordia.
In the Children’s Daily Home and Ward there are 30 kids in between 0-4 years who are being cared by care helpers, nannies and skilled persons and will be prepared for their start-up in school. Beside of Christian values the children will be introduced into the kinder garden and social groups. The monthly costs in that Daily Home and Ward are approx. Euro 2.300.- for care helpers, toys as we as board and lodging. Close to Concordia the couple Erich and Celma Wuerfel founded and are responsible for an additional Powerhouse for deprived and poor children in the slums of Barrio de la Esperanza.
Together with the Cristian Community Iglesia Nueva Vida on every Saturday they do organize a Day Care for children and youth. The participating poor children do get in circle training, education in different school subjects as there are sports, music, arts and Christian values. Also they can get private lessons. This takes place every Saturday and ends with a warm meal for all children.
The new Powerhouse in Concepción del Uruguay has also been started very successful even by the support of the Association Neues Leben Suedamerika e.V.
The financial costs of the Powerhouse have to be raised by an amount of approx. Euro 4.000,- per year. This is where we would like to start with our support of the Dieter and Bettina Wulkow Foundation and to promote at first the sustentation for one year and perhaps for a second year. It includes the costs to provide toys, education material, circle lessons for the children and the warm meals. We would be pleased, if you can support us by a donation in this aid project. As we are informed, also in the future a Children’s Home as well as a Children’s Daily Care Centre are perhaps planned to be erected in Concepción del Uruguay too. As in the past, we will report about the progress of this project.
Photos: For Dieter and Bettina Wulkow Foundation, with permit of Neues Leben Südamerika e.V. Altenkirchen
