Report
1997 Amantaní begins as a Provisional Home in a rented flat in Cusco.
1998 We move into a bigger, more suitable house.
1999 We start to take in breast-feeding, adolescent mothers, in a rented flat next door to our building. This project was later taken on by a different organisation.
• We extend the premises in order to be able to take in more babies.
2002 We buy some land next to the Amantani Home, where we build an annexe.
We are an active member of the Red Semilla Nueva, as we believe in the need of working in coordination with the institutions in Cusco which are devoted to at-risk children and teenagers.
In the course of our work in the home we see the need to:
• provide the children with more personalized attention;
• provide means to prevent the social exclusion of mothers, a possible cause of them abandoning their children
2003 The first wawa wasi (nursery) is opene.
2004 We open the second wawa wasi and the first family home is created.
2006 The second family home is opened.
2007 We extend the first wawa wasi and close the second in order to begin working with wawa wasis in the poorer city and rural areas.
2008 We buy a house so as to establish our third family home.
2011 : we are invited to participate in the “ First International Congress of Quality of Care in Residential Care Centers” as guests speakers on “ Successful experiences in Residential Care Centers” along with speakers from two other centers.
2012 : Boys and girls over three years of age are transferred from the main house- at Amantani Residential Home for Children- to a separate and independent family annex house.
The association to support Amantaní is formalized in Barcelona: Amantaní-BCN.
2017: Amantaní-BCN organizes a party to celebrate our 20 years in Cuzco.
2018: The “Casa Verde” Family House becomes an area for activities for all the children and teenagers of Amantani. And for all staff meetings and professional trainings.
. Amantani-BCN is declared is declared a tax-deductible entity.
2020: Since March 2020 with the start of Covid-19, children no longer arrive from the Family Police Station, only through the Special Protection Unit with a rapid Covid test.
2022: We go back to welcoming the children without a Covid test and with the Police. . Amantani celebrates its 25 years.
Since the beginning, we have sheltered 1,760 children and teenagers.
Number of children entering per year in Amantaní :
1997 |
40 |
2004 |
56 |
2011 |
50
|
2018 |
67 |
1998 |
66 |
2005 |
48 |
2012 |
69 . |
2019 |
91 |
1999 |
97 |
2006 |
54 |
2013 |
47 |
2020 |
30 |
2000 |
111 |
2007 |
72 |
2014 |
56 |
2021 |
38 |
2001 |
97 |
2008 |
88 |
2015 |
73 |
2022 |
43 |
2002 |
46 |
2009 |
59 |
2016 |
82 |
2023 |
81 |
2003 |
63 |
2010 |
62
|
2017 |
63 |
2024 |
54 |
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María y Pilar Echevarría Pérez
(+51) 84 . 25 14 07