Safe Home, Buenos Aires

The Children’s Home was founded in 1877 by Maria Luisa Schulz with the aim of caring for the welfare and education of children. At that time, the main goal was to accommodate and support children from German-speaking immigrant families. Nowadays, the mission of the Home has changed to respond to the most urgent needs of the poorest children. The organization takes in about 30 children a year who have been victims of violence and domestic abuse. Whenever possible, siblings are to be admitted together so that the children do not lose another familiar person in their lives.  Hogar Maria Luisa welcomes all children and is committed to protecting children’s dignity and their right to live free from fear and violence. In addition, the facility educates the children in a wide variety of areas of life in order to create perspectives beyond the negative experiences of the past.

The project’s main target group is children aged 3-16 and most of them have been victims of domestic abuse and violence.

The most important goal at the moment is to repair the second floor of the building. Since the roof of the house was in poor condition, the second floor of the building had to be closed for safety reasons. This not only results in limitations for the accommodation of children, but also means that there is no space to set up a reading room or rooms for teenagers, for example. The renovation of the second floor, which has now begun, should create these rooms and, above all, enable the home to increase the number of children it accommodates. In addition, targeted measures are to be taken to strengthen the home’s external communication in order to generate further donations for the work of Hogar Maria Luisa.

With your donation you contribute to the fact that the children’s home Hogar Maria Luisa can take in even more children and thus protect them from violence and abuse.