HOGAR SANTA TERESITA IN TINGO MARIA, PERU

Name:           Hogar Sta. Teresita

Telephone:  011-51-62-563004

E-mail:          steresita@inabif.gob.pe

Director:      Gregorio Arretea Castro

Orphan Train Intermediary:   Sr. Mary Ann Leininger

Please contact the Orphan Train before contacting the Orphanage. This orphanage is already working with one Orphan Train Conductor, but could use additional assistance. The list of needs would be refreshed for any interested parties, as they may have changed since the writing below. 

Location

Tingo Maria is a very small town located on the “ down –side “ of the Andes Mountains into the jungle.  It is  about 10  hour drive from lima and two hours from huanuco

The climate is very warm and humid with a lot of rain throughout the year.  The zone is covered with a dense tropical vegetation..

The principle economic activity in the area  is agriculture; mostly producing bananas, papayas, chocolate, and coca.

Number of residents

Usually there are 60 – 70    boys and girls  between  5 – 12 yrs old.  The majority of the children are from the rural jungle districts of tingo maria.

Staff

Director          Gregorio Arratea Castro

Administrator   Manuel Dioses

Psychologist    Ricardo Guerrero

Social worker              

Foster mothers   06 persons

Cook                   02 persons

Contact person

Sister Mary Ann Leininger is a Catholic missionary nun from San Diego, California working in peru for the last 35 years.  She belongs to the sisters of st. Joseph of carondelet. For the last three years  she and two other sisters have assumed responsibility for a home for boys ages 5-12 yrs old in the city of huanuco.

Brief history of the Santa Teresita Home in Tingo Maria

The Santa Tersita Home opened on  Oct.13,1994. This government sponsored home in Tingo Maria provides protection services with a capacity for 75  children and adolescents who are at risk or who have experienced especially difficult circumstances. Some children are orphans, others come from extreme poverty, or with experiences of physical and sexual abuse .

Santa Teresita is divided into five houses  where 10 – 14 children are cared for by foster mothers.   There is a large dormitory for  about 25  teenage boys.    Everyone eats  in  the  general  dining room.  And all other activites take place in each house where  the children sleep, play, study, and bathe.

Description of the needs

Industrial stove all of the meals are prepared in the main kitchen and everyone eats together in the main dining room.  The actual stove  in use burns very slowly.  In the last year there have been several gas leaks repaired .

Furniture 

The furniture in the dining area are second and third –hand donations received when santa teresita opened eight years ago. More benches are needed  in order to provide suitable space for eating together and to accomodate everyone.  Also the home  needs cupboards for each group house  to store dishware.

Computer and printer

The working staff produces many documents for the children at a  request or response to the family court which include psychological  and social service reports on each child which are updated every three months.  The work flow is slow since there is only one computer and printer for the director, adminstrator and other general uses described above. Another computer would improve their services for the children.

Expected  outcome

A new industrial stove would eliminate the present fire hazard to the home.

More furniture would eliminate moving chairs from one room to another to assure that each child has a place to sit.  The very old second hand furniture that was donated years ago would be replaced.

Another computer would improve their services for the children.

Proposed budget for general improvements

Industrial stove  ……………………………...  850.00

Transport and installation

Furniture   15 benches ………………………   370.00

05 gabinets ……………………..   1310.00

Computer and printer ………………………..1100.00

$ 3630.00  total

Accountability

The hogar santa teresita  is financed with  public funds.  All donations are reported; equipment and furniture are added to the annual inventory list.

Accountability for the funds received would include a written evaluation, photographs, as well as a report of receipts and expenditures.

Hogar  Santa Teresita 

Tingo maria 

April 23, 2005