FOOD AND EDUCATION FOR 80 AT-RISK CHILDREN IN BOGOTÀ
Introduction: Hogares Club Michin
OUR ITALIAN VOLUNTEER RICCARDO
“Hi there! I`m Riccardo Di Massa, I’m an economist, I’m
Italian, and I’m currently volunteering in Hogares Club
Michin, a non-profit organization that rescues children
and teenagers living in problematic conditions in
Bogotà, Colombia. This organization saves them from
delinquency, violence, drugs, exploitation, sexual
abuse, difficult domestic situations while affording them
love, housing, education, food, clothes, professional
courses, psychological, medical, and legal support until
they become of age. After that, time is spent supporting
them to find a job or continue studying in universities”.
Hogares Club Michin operates in two programs in
behalf of these people.
Protection in Households
Colombian State issues a deed of protection (“medida
de proteccion”) for those children whose rights are violated or ignored in their families and send them
to Hogares Club Michin. This organization intervenes since 1958 saving them from difficult family or
neighborhood situations and looking after them, affording them love, house, education, professional
courses, food, psychological and legal support until they are older. Furthermore, they support them to
keep on studying or working when they become of age, looking for jobs or further education. HCM is
currently hosting full time more than 180 children (from 2 to 18 years) in 8 households in the barrio of
Santa Maria del lago, offering them a comfortable and positive living space, with lovely teachers,
instructors, doctors, psychologists, social workers and lawyers. This is to afford them everything they
need to grow up with positive values and to find a nice job or university career once they become of
age.
Prevention in Communities
In two barrios in the south west of Bogotá there are many
children whose families cannot look after them or afford
them a good childhood, because of problems of poverty,
drugs or violence. Many of these children are victims of
violence, exploitation or sexual abuse. As you can
imagine, living a childhood in those conditions means
growing up in a negative and hostile atmosphere, without
values, and becoming negatively influenced people for
the rest of their lives. Children who grow up in these
conditions will most likely be involved in the reality of
violence, crime, drugs and begging and will forever live in
a mentality of mediocrity, brutalization, degradation and
delinquency; living without dreams, and feeding the
vicious circle which can be observed in this city and in
the world. Hogares Club Michin has two Community
Centers in the barrio Mirador de la Primavera, in the area of Ciudad Bolivar, and in the barrio of Diana
Turbay, in the area of Rafael Uribe, where they work with children, before or after school and during
weekends, in order to prevent critical situations. Here you can find them doing homework with nice
teachers, having meals together, receiving medical, psychological and legal support, thus preventing
them from being involved in criminal behaviour and lifestyles. More than 200 children are currently
spending their weekdays in the two Community Centers and much more their weekends. We also
work with their families, in order to prevent critical situations.
Our numbers
Since 1958 Hogares Club Michin hosted more than 17.000 children, helped more than 2000 women
and 10.000 families. The expected expense for 2016 is 67.945$ (224.219.717COP). Our paid staff
is composed of 9 people (Director, Financial Coordinator, Financial Assistant, Accountant, Accounting
Assistant, Administrative Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, Auditor, Quality Coordinator). About
80 professional teachers, psychologists, doctors, social workers, lawyers, cooks and cleaners work
with us. We also receive support by 20 volunteers every year. All our members and workers are highlevel professionals and we do our best to keep
RESULT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
the highest standards of quality for our
children.
Psychological tests
Psychological tests have been administered to
children when they get in the houses for the
first time (ingreso) and when they leave them,
years later (egreso), demonstrating that during
their stay they have gained self-confidence,
positivity and nice values. The effect of the
program on families has been evaluated
through social and psychological tests and they
also demonstrated to have overtaken social
and relational difficulties that presented at the
beginning.
Effectiveness, transparency, quality
The Colombian State, through ¨Insituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar¨ (ICBF), finances almost
80% of the organization. Every year the contract with ICBF is renewed after that Colombian State
guarantees Hogares Club Michin effectiveness, transparency and quality of treatment for the
children. Besides, Hogares Club Michin obtained the certification by ¨ONG por la transparencia¨
(NGO for transparency) after that its balance sheet had been analyzed and evaluated as transparent.
Our Households and Community Centers are always opened to public and can be visited by any
interested person at any time.
Our financiers
Hogares Club Michin is currently receiving most of its funds by Colombian State through “Instituto
Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar”, two Colombian Fundations and few more private donors. In the
last years, the Community Center of Diana Tubay has needed more funds and has been in
decline. For lack of funds, this center had to delete many educational, professional and artistic
courses and activities that can no longer be provided to the children. For this reason, 39% of the
current generic donations are addressed to this Community Center.
Support
If you are moved by this cause you may contribute through:
- Share this message with at least ten contacts and tell your relatives and friends about Hogares Club
Michin
- Visit the organization website www.hogaresclubmichin.com
- Visit the organization youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/hogaresclubmichin
- Subscribe to our newsletter http://hogaresclubmichin.com/es/noticias/
- Donations can be made via http://hogaresclubmichin.com/es/tu-puedes-crear-futuros/
- if you are interested in volunteer options, i.e. fundraising, organizing events, teaching English,
music, dance, painting to the children, our email is [email protected]
- If you're a musician, an actor, an artist, or someone famous, contact us to be our testimonial
- If you work in a newspaper, a radio, a TV channel and would like to help us promote, contact us at
[email protected]
- If you work at a company or financial restitution that would like to make a corporate donation, please
contact us at [email protected]
- Contact us for any other idea
Education and food for the 80 children of the Community Center of Diana Turbay
The biggest challenge that Hogares Club Michin is currently facing is prevention, which means
intervening before that a child becomes drug addicted or gets abused, exploited, recruited. This is a
challenge because prevention is for sure the best option, but it is not measurable, so results cannot
be shown to the Colombian State or to donors.
In the Prevention in Communities, Hogares Club Michin provides a psychologically healthy space for
children that otherwise would spend their days in the street, exposed to drugs, sexual abuse,
exploitation, criminality. The Center provides assistance in doing their homework, partial meals,
recreation, sport and artistic activities, legal and psychological assistance in order to detect personal
problems and aptitudes and to avoid abandonment of studies. The Center also works with their
families. This way, children stay away from drugs, bandillas, bad
domestic situations, prostitution, robberies, child labour,
recruitment in guerrilla armies, abandonment of studies.
ENTRANCE OF OUR CENTER IN DIANA TURBAY
CHILDREN OF OUR CENTER IN DIANA TURBAY
The total cost of the Prevention Program in Diana Turbay is
51.600$ (172.637.812 COP). 80 children and their families
benefit of the program. The monthly cost to maintain the
progam is 4.300$ (14.386.484 COP). The monthly cost to
maintain a child is 53,75$.
This program doesn`t receive any support by Colombian State
and by ¨Insituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar¨. The only
support comes by a Colombian Fundation, but, as you can see in
the financial excerpts, it is not enough and the Center of Diana
Turbay has been in decline in the last 25 years and the situation
got worse in the latest years.
For the lack of funds, this Center had to delete many
professional and artistic courses and had to reduce meals.
Our urgent problem is that the 80 children al malnourished
and lack professional and artistic education. Luckily 5200$ is
a lot of money in Bogotá suburbs. This project will let the
Center be able to provide additional healthy food once a
week to every child and to pay for professional daily classes
of weaving, bakery, informatics and music for the duration of
8 months. A complete meal costs 1.25$. A professional
instructor takes 450$ a month to teach daily to the whole
Center. Considering that the Center is already capable to
offer daily partial meals and that the 80 children also receive
more food when they are out of the Center, for the moment
we considered to provide nutritional addition of healthy food
once a week or twice if possible. See the project budget
scheme at the bottom!
As you can see in the first extract of the 2015 Financial Statement, from the 1st of January to the 31st
of October 2015 the Center of Diana Turbay has been in deficit of 3.702$ (12.388.012COP). As you
can see, the Center didn’t receive any revenue (ingresos operacionales) in the period, but it received
donations (from Fundación Santa Gema).
EXCERPTS OF OUR FINANCIAL REPORT
HOGARES CLUB MICHIN
ESTADO DE INGRESOS SOBRE EGRESOS POR PROGRAMA
AL 31 DE OCTUBRE DE 2015
CUENTA
INGRESOS OPERACIONALES
DONACIONES PROGRAMA
TOTAL INGRESOS
HOGARES
1,571,975,192
21,290,063
1,593,265,255
DIANA TURBAY
91,756,900
91,756,900
CASA VERDE
2,153,950
2,153,950
GASTOS ADMINISTRATIVOS
COSTOS OPERATIVOS
TOTAL COSTOS Y GASTOS
1,049,612,925
516,341,979
1,565,954,904
92,012,262
9,840,228
101,852,490
1,172,400
981,550
2,153,950
RESULTADO OPERATIVO
27,310,351
(10,095,590)
GASTOS NO OPERACIONALES
INGRESOS NO OPERACIONALES
SEGUROS
DEPRECIACIONES
IMPUESTOS
RESULTADO DEL PROGRAMA
3,046,052
27,981,975
6,101,328
5,966,106
15,647,260
24,531,580
2,459,975
5,026,712
229,068
4,031,712
598,379
(12,388,012)
3,445
(3,445)
ADMON
CIUD BOLIVAR
1,829,505
1,829,505
101,095,250
101,095,250
290,875,081
290,875,081
77,666,569
8,035,970
85,702,539
(289,045,576)
15,392,711
6,339,465
348,467,117
1,296,391
107,282,546
35,091,000
(90,587,861)
948,330
7,813,228
2,114,506
20,143,103
In the second extract of 2015 Financial Statement you can see how money is spent (ejecutado) for
the Center. The biggest costs are for stipends (teachers, social workers, psychologists, doctors,
lawyers, cooks and cleaners), restoration, transportation, food, water and phone.
ANUAL 2015
RAM DIANA TURBAY - COSTOS LABORABLES Y ADMINISTRATIVOS
EJECUTADO
PRESUPUESTO
SUELDOS
46.488.328
5.220.045
HORAS EXTRAS
INCAPACIDADES
243.210
AUXILIO DE TRANSPORTE
2.224.933
295.776
CESANTIAS
3.894.493
459.468
INTERESES SOBRE CESANTIAS
458.692
52.200
PRIMA DE SERVICIOS
3.868.692
459.468
VACACIONES
2.698.515
217.154
DOTACION Y SUMINISTRO A TRABAJADORES
498.060
69.685
CAPACITACION AL PERSONAL
37.500
41.667
APORTES ADMINISTRADORAS DE RIESGOS PROFESIO
239.000
27.249
APORTES A ENTIDADES PROMOTORAS DE SALUD E.P
3.949.248
443.704
APORTES A FONDOS PENSIONES Y/O CESANTIAS
5.728.350
635.007
APORTES CAJAS DE COMPENSACION FAMILIAR
1.860.440
208.802
APORTRES I.C.B.F.
1.395.100
156.601
SENA
930.000
104.401
BIENESTAR DEL PERSONAL
55.200
7.995
BONIFICACIONES
80.000
IMPUESTOS
597.000
55.621
ARRENDAMIENTOS
SEGUROS
193.017
149.965
SERVICIOS TEMPORALES
46.324
SERVICIO DE TELEFONO
CORREOS PORTES Y TELEGRAMAS
GASTOS LEGALES
13.900
1.712
MANTENIMIENTO Y REPARACIONES
3.434.193
354.123
ELEMENTOS DE ASEO Y CAFETERIA
22.700
6.253
PAPELERIA UTILES Y FOTOCOPIAS
237.030
63.757
TRANSPORTES
1.265.300
95.906
VARIOS E IMPREVISTOS
1.255.792
2.000
81.345.483
9.498.094
DEPRECIACION
3.665.193
(0)
TOTAL COSTOS LOBORABLES Y ADMINISTRATIVOS
85.010.676
ANUAL 2015
PROGRAMA COMUNIDAD TURBAY - COSTOS OPERATIVOS
EJECUTADO
PRESUPUESTO
ELEMENTOS DE ASEO PERSONAL
HONORARIOS
SERVICIOS
FOTOCOPIAS - PAPELERIAS
117.064
10.000
MATERIAL DIDACTICO
319.820
15.000
ESCOLARES PENSIONES Y MATRICULAS
TRANSPORTE DE USUARIOS
223.000
40.000
ALIMENTACION
2.339.607
300.000
VESTUARIO
DOTACION COCINA Y COMEDOR
10.000
DOTACION DORMITORIOS VARIOS
DOTACION BIBLIOTECA
GASTOS MEDICOS Y ODONTOLOGICOS
105.000
RECREACION Y DEPORTE
256.970
125.000
LEGALES
SERVICIOS VIGILANCIA
636.000
70.040
COMUNICACIONES
ELEMENTOS DE ASEO GENERAL
229.599
60.000
ACUEDUCTO Y ALCANTARILLADO
1.691.170
168.000
ENERGIA ELECTRICA
522.740
100.000
TELEFONO
1.363.415
108.000
IMPUSTO SOBRE LA VENTAS
101.750
GAS
179.750
50.000
TRANSPORTES Y ACARREOS
610.000
100.000
TOTAL COSTOS OPERATIVOS
8.695.885
1.156.040
www.hogaresclubmichin.com
[email protected]
+57 1 2362903
PROJECT BUDGET SCHEME
FOOD
COST OF A SINGLE
COMPLETE MEAL
COST OF ADDITIONAL
HEALTHY FOOD FOR ONE
MEAL
COST OF ADDITIONAL
HEALTHY FOOD FOR 80
CHILDREN FOR A WEEK
TOTAL COST OF
ADDITIONAL HEALTHY FOOD
FOR 8 MONTHS
COURSES
1.25$
0.6$
48$
1536$
MONTHLY STIPEND FOR A
PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR 450$
TOTAL COST OF THE
COURSES FOR 8 MONTHS
3600$
TOTAL COST OF THE
PROJECT
5136$
INTERVIEW WITH THREE OF
OUR CHILDREN (Daniel, Juan
David, Ibraimovic)
How many years have you lived
in HCM?
9, 10 and 6 years.
What difference has HCM made
to your life?
Ibraimovic:
It
gave
me
opportunities, education first of all.
Juan David: It helps us to get in
universities. It changed our point of
view of the world!
What are you hopes for the
future?
Ibraimovic: I wanna get graduated,
have my job and go out of HCM as
an
economically
independent
person. Then, come back to HCM
to help the organization. Juan
David: Achieve my dreams. Have
my job and help people in need.
Daniel:
Studying,
getting
graduated,
travelling,
learning
English. My own house and job.
What do you want to say to
every reader around the word?
Daniel: to never give up for what
they really want.