Casa de Caridad Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria

Latin America

Founding 22/03/1973 Diocese

Prelature of Humahuaca

Location

Address

Corrientes 510
Humahuaca (4630) - Argentina

Phone

005403887421090

E-mail claretianashumahuaca@yahoo.com / claretianashumahuaca@gmail.com

E-mail claretianashumahuaca@yahoo.com

Projects

• “KANCHAY” (in Quechua language it means “to illuminate”): a lunch is provided for 25 or 30 people: old people, women, children and chronic alcoholics. Single people, some sick and abandoned from any institution. The resources needed to cover the costs of the dining room come mostly from PROCLADE BETICA‘s contribution.
• “Warmi Chaniyux, Valuable Woman”: workshops are offered to the women of Humahuaca, as a space for containment, strengthening of self-esteem, values, culture, openness to new relationships and solidarity. Workshops are organised on: sewing, weaving, recycling, hairdressing, computing, regional cuisine.
• “A support, a growth”: classes for 30 children from 1^st to 5^th grade with scarce resources. The attention as containment and support to the integral growth of the children is individual and group. The children are helped in the search for information and accompanied in some school tasks. An atmosphere of trust is created; other alternatives to what is taught are applied and different strategies are sought to strengthen what is transmitted in the school classroom.

Pastoral

• Social P.: management and administration of the Casa de Caridad. Administration of the hostelry. Management and realization of the project “Kanchay” dining room for the elderly and people without resources.
• Parish P.: training for animators and catechists, biblical formation, missionary pastoral IAM, pre-baptismal and family catechesis, liturgical animation, formation and visit to the sick, Parish Caritas, COPAPAS Parish Pastoral Council, COPREPAS Prelatic Pastoral Council. Animation of the rural pastoral, vocational pastoral and board of religious of the prelacy.