Protecting Vulnerable Children in 9 Countries Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean

Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos fully supports nearly 3,300 vulnerable boys and girls and young adults in Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. Fully supported youth receive a quality education, health care services, emotional and psychological support, guidance in their spiritual formation, a home with a safe and caring family environment, and more for those with special needs and unique challenges.

An additional 2,800 children and families in local communities receive scholarships and other educational financial assistance, meals, health care services, and crisis response support, and more. Some 81,000 services were provided through community outreach programs across the region in 2020.

El Salvador

Protection

Prevention

Education

El Salvador continues to recover from a devastating 12-year civil war. Rates of violence and crime remain high. NPH El Salvador’s Casa Sagrada Familia is nestled between Santa Ana and the smaller town of Texistepeque. Children attend class onsite through grade 9. High school and university students live in residential homes in Santa Ana. Vocational training includes carpentry, welding, sewing, and baking. A day care center serves children of working families from the  local community. And children from neighboring villages receive financial and other support to attend the Casa Sagrada Familia school.

Opened: 1999
Main Home: Casa Sagrada Familia
Features: School grades K-9, health clinic, chapel, vocational workshops, farm and gardens

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Bolivia

Education

Preparation

Spiritual Development

Bolivia being the poorest country in South America, NPH Bolivia is eager to expand its programs to meet the needs of local families and children. The home has a unique focus on sustainable food production. Its crops include yucca and rice, plus milk and fish from its other agricultural operations. An onsite water treatment plant provides potable drinking water for the children and staff. Children attend primary school onsite then progress on to secondary school in the nearby community of Portachuelo. University students attend class, live, and work in Santa Cruz.

Opened: 2005
Main Home: Casa Padre Wasson
Features: School grades 1-6, community health clinic, vegetable gardens, fish farm, milking cow project

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Dominican Republic

Prevention

Preparation

Special Needs

Casa Santa Ana sits between two extremes: poor migrant sugar cane farming settlements (bateys) and U.S. baseball professional training facilities. The proximity of the bateys helps NPH Dominican Republic serve a truly vulnerable population—undocumented Haitian workers and their families. Casa San Marcos is a special needs home especially equipped to suit the needs of its residents. Casa Santa Maria, or ‘Haiti House,’ receives cancer patients from NPH’s St. Damien Pediatric Hospital. Families stay at the facility while their young patients receive radiation therapy in Santo Domingo.

Opened: 2003
Main Home: Casa Santa Ana
Features: School grades K-11, Montessori, special education program, vocational/technical school, health clinic, agricultural production

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Guatemala

Protection

Prevention

Education

NPH Guatemala is located in the highlands of San Andrés Itzapa, one hour from Guatemala City. Situated 1500 meters above sea level with Volcano Fuego as the backdrop, the red brick buildings and roofs of the NPH home Casa San Andrés lie in contrast to the rich cultural landscape of the country.

Opened: 1996
Main Home: Casa San Andres
Features: Montessori school, clinic, vegetable gardens and general kitchen, chapel, accommodation houses, five vocational workshops

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Haiti

Preparation

Special Needs

Health Care

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. As such, NPH Haiti, known as Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs (NPFS), strives to address the needs of the poorest of the poor, raise children in a loving environment, and create future leaders. Our programs in Haiti address the complexity of challenges that poor communities face. Kay St. Germaine, Kay Gabriel, and Kay Elaine are rehabilitation outpatient centers. Father Wasson Angels of Light is both a home and school for displaced children. St. Damien Pediatric Hospital is a leading medical facility. Altogether, NPH serves tens of thousands of vulnerable Haitan children and adults annually.

Opened: 1987
Main Home: St. Hélène Foyer
Features: School grades K-8, farm, full-service pediatric hospital, rehabilitation centers, university education program

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Honduras

Protection

Prevention

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NPH Honduras provides alternative residential care as well as family and community strengthening services to thousands of vulnerable children, adolescents, and young adults in Honduras. Through the pillars of Protection, Prevention, and Preparation, our team of more than 280 local employees works to restore the human rights of vulnerable people. NPH Honduras, "The Most Extensive Family in Honduras," has been supporting Honduran children and youth for more than 35 years.

Opened: 1985
Main Home: Santa Fe Ranch, Km. 36 Carretera a Olancho
Additional Care Settings: San Jose Family Center in Mata de Plátano, Cedros, F.M.; San Francisco Family Center in Talanga, F.M.; Little Steps Daycare in Tegucigalpa; Casa Angeles Disability Care Center in Tegucigalpa; Casa Mi Esperanza Emergency Shelter in Catacamas, Olancho.

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Mexico

Protection

Preparation

Education

Casa San Salvador, an old converted sugar plantation in the village of Miacatlán in central Mexico, is the primary residential home of NPH Mexico. Within the campus, the home raises a large share of its own food, including chickens, sheep, pigs, and fruit and vegetables. Casa Buen Señor in Cuernavaca is home to high school students who attend the NPH  technical high school. Community students also attend the high school with financial support from NPH. Young men and women attend university in Monterrey and Mexico City, with support from NPH Mexico to help them complete their studies.

Opened: 1954
Main Home: Casa San Salvador
Features: School pre-K-8, health clinic, farms, technical high school, university education program, youth transition home

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Nicaragua

Special Needs

Prevention

Spiritual Development

Environmental sustainability is a focus of NPH Nicaragua, located in Jinotepe. Some 500 solar panels adorn the rooftops of Casa Padre Wasson to help defray the cost of electricity. An expansive greenhouse project plus vegetable crops provide the home with fresh food and high-quality nutrition, including peppers, tomatoes, plantains, grapefruit, and other more. Livestock production includes chickens, pigs, cows, and fish. The Buen Samaritano program provides occupational and physical therapy, psychological care, and health care for children in the local communities of Jinotepe and Ometepe Island. After completing high school in Jinotepe, university students live and study in Managua, the capital city.

Opened: 1994
Main Home: Casa Padre Wasson
Features: School (grades K-11), vocational workshops, farms, greenhouse, agricultural production, special needs programs

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Peru

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Protection

Preparation

Education

NPH Peru’s Casa Santa Rosa is in San Vicente de Cañete, south of capital city Lima. The home has a vocational workshop that operates a bakery, not only teaching a useful trade to the youth but also producing bread for the home. Agriculture is another vocational focus for the home. Corn is harvested as feed for livestock and sold to generate income. Students attend school offsite, walking a short distance to a local pre-K through secondary school. University students attend class in San Vicente de Cañate or move to Lima to continue their studies. The home has a therapy center where physical and occupational therapists, some of them international volunteers, help children with motor and cognitive issues.

Opened: 2004
Main Home: Casa Santa Rosa
Features: Vocational training bakery center, farms, solar water heaters, health clinic, therapy center

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Global Fundraising Offices Helping To Protect Vulnerable Latin American and Caribbean Children

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