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Our History
For 30 years, Pueblito has been helping the children of Latin America by safeguarding their rights, strengthening their communities and providing the essentials for health, education and nutrition. In 1974, a group of selfless Canadians set about to improve the lives of the vulnerable and neglected street children of Costa Rica . Together with a group of Costa Ricans, they founded a Children's Village as an alternative to government orphanages. Costa Rican couples were selected as foster parents and lived with the children in the "Pueblito", Spanish for "small community".
Since then, Pueblito has evolved into a well respected international development agency dedicated to providing quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs and services for young children in poor communities in Latin America . Working in partnership with local non-governmental organizations, Pueblito provides capacity building and financial assistance to develop culturally appropriate, innovative ECD programs that benefit children directly. At the same time, we involve and mobilize the family and community.
Pueblito is proud of the reputation and high rating from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) which has described us as:
".a serious, dynamic, responsible, experienced organization with all the means at its disposal to obtain the best results in the field of Early Childhood Development (ECD). Pueblito deserves to be supported by the public and adequately backed by Canada 's official development assistance funds." (CIDA, December 2002)
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