Backpacks of Dreams Help children & youths kick off their school journey.

These Kids need our help, not just to regain their spot in the classroom but also to fill out their Backpacks of Dreams. Let's support them in starting a fresh, empowered year to pursue their dreams and life projects.

We're helping to renew hopes & rebuild lives. Reconstruction and trauma management

Reconstruction and trauma management are the longest and toughest journeys, so each support and contribution will be crucial to overcoming it. This crisis is far from over.

Older adults - the fastest growing segment A major challenge for Chile by 2050

Mr. Héctor Concha, a user of CEAM, Arica-Chile, shares his experiences in a VIDEO & his frustration about being a vulnerable older adult feeling marginalized and ignored.

Residential Therapeutic Program for Women They're struggling with drug/alcohol abuse.

Since 2017, provide a safe & proper environment for vulnerable women with drug and alcohol abuse, QUILICURA-CHILE

Housing First Program, CHILE Everything begins at home

OVER 530 PARTICIPANTS HAS LEFT THE STREETS; 98% REMAIN IN ITS HOME.

Mental Disability, Chile Most of them live in urban areas.

Six (6) essential rights must be fulfilled to achieve inclusion

SUMATE's mission One of the most challenging in the field of education

30 years of transforming lives through education

Pure love and commitment In-home care program in Chile

PADAM from Hogar de Cristo

Homelessness in Chile

It unfailingly hit the poor-vulnerable the hardest.

Children. Let's help build their future together

In Chile, almost 6 out of 10 children from 0 to 4 years old do not attend preschool or kindergarten; 45% live in poverty...
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Our Mission

Hogar de Cristo welcomes with love and dignity the poorest of the poor to expand their opportunities for a better life. It enthusiastically supports the community in its responsibility to those discriminated against in our society. Inspired by the spirit of Alberto Hurtado SJ, it’s a transparent, efficient, and effective organization that promotes a culture of respect, justice, and unity.

Hogar de Cristo, 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Over 78 years of transforming lives to insert into society fully.

Hogar de Cristo USA Inc. started activities in the United States on June 6,  2006. With offices in Pompano Beach, FL, the 501 (C) 3 foundation promotes solidarity, advocates, and raises funds to help Hogar de Cristo financing programs in Chile. Over 250 programs and sites assist more than 43,000 users yearly. It is one of the most extensive and active charities in Chile. Fr. Alberto Hurtado SJ founded Hogar de Cristo in October 19, 1944.

 

SOCIAL STRATEGY OF HOGAR DE CRISTO 2023

October 19, 2023 – 79th Anniversary!
This date will mark a new milestone of Chile’s’s Hogar de Cristo Foundation. It is the 79th anniversary of a permanent full-time mission of transforming lives and building trajectories of inclusion throughout Chile. In 2022, Hogar de Cristo, a laic organization, impacted almost 44,000 people through 258 programs.

79 years of transforming vulnerable lives

We always aspire To Do Good but Doing Well based on our core values of solidarity, commitment, entrepreneurial spirit, respect, justice, transparency, and teamwork.

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