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Impact EcuadorImpact Ecuador

Impact Ecuador focuses on the poor Quito suburb of Carmen Bajo, partnering with Carmen Bajo Church to offer community building programs and to construct a 3-story facility housing a medical clinic, kids education wing, youth drop-in centre, and church sanctuary.

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Program Highlights

  • After-school Hot Meal/Tutoring Program for kids aged 5-12

  • Youth outreach and counselling

  • Marriage counselling

  • Addiction and abuse counselling

  • Poverty relief

  • Home construction

  • Multi-use facility construction (Medical Clinic, Community Centre, Church)

  • Job creation, training and micro-enterprise

Recent Activity

  • Hot Meal Tutoring program expanded from three to five days, serving 150+ kids

  • Purchase of additional lot for multi-purpose facility

  • Construction work on four homes in the neighborhood

  • Further construction on the "Compassion Centre" where the Hot Meal program is held

  • Grace Community Church sent a team in Feb 2010

  • March Break 2010 - 65 Youth/Leaders sent on a joint Waterloo Mennonite Brethren/Creekside
    mission trip

  • Concrete ramp built for Jose Manuel, a carpenter confined to a wheelchair

  • Work began on Jose Manuel's workshop, where he will eventually create a couple jobs

Future Activity

  • Design for multi-purpose facility now that the lot purchase is complete

  • Start multi-purpose facility construction with funds raised to date

  • A new capital campaign will start when building design is complete and approved

  • Income generating activity assistance for local entrepreneurs

  • Grace Community Church sending Youth team in July 2010

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