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6) GET INVOLVED

K.I.D.S — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:48:23 CST

K.I.D.S are looking for volunteers to run events to raise money for these programmes. If you can help or want to get involve in any way, please email Florencia to :

kids_argentina@yahoo.ie

Or via telephone to:
(00-353-0) 872 438099 or
(00-353-0) 877 543413

5) FOUNDRAISING & FINANCE

K.I.D.S — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:47:47 CST

Fundraising activities involve:

Once-off donations
Monthly direct debit donations
Company sponsorships
Events

Finance:
Our staff based in Argentina will be responsible for sending Annual and Quarterly Financial Rerports

K.I.D.S is a charity organisation subject to Irish law on company returns.

Please help us in any way you can. To make donations, please call us to: (00 353 0)87-2438099 or (00 353 0)87-7543413.

While we have our emails and website built. you can also email us to: kids_argentina@yahoo.ie and we will respond to any query you may have.

3) WHY SUPPORT K.I.D.S?

K.I.D.S — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:58:37 CST

"Prevention is better than cure"

K.I.D.S recognises that socio-economic climate in Argentina and the rise in unemployment after the crisis of 2001, means that education is paramount to a better future for children. Children who drop out of school after turn to the streets and only through action NOW can we stem this flow.

Argentina is not in the world media as a "crisis" area. K.I.D.S will create awareness of this rising problem and encourage people to get involved to change the future.

2) WHAT DO THE PROGRAMMES INVOLVE?

K.I.D.S — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:57:30 CST

These after-school programmes will include extra curricular activities and help with their homeworks. All these workshops consist in being fun but at the same time provide them with a skill and new abilities for their future. The workshops will involve activities in:

arts,
computers,
languages,
dance,
carpentry,
literature,
cooking, etc.

1) WHAT IS OUR ORGANISATION ABOUT?

K.I.D.S — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:55:53 CST

OBJECTIVES:
Our mission is to develop after-school programmes in disadvantage and poverty areas of Argentina.

To achieve our mission statement, K.I.D.S will:

Generate funds to develop these programmes
Develop the programmes
Recruit coordinators and volunteers
Run the programmes
Develop a manual so the program can be repeated
Create awareness of this situation and get people involved from inside and outside of Argentina
We want to take ACTION BEFORE THIS BECOMES A CRISIS.

The Head Office will be in Dublin, Ireland. Initially the programmes will start operating in Rosario, Argentina and in time it will be developed in other urban areas of Argentina.

WHO ARE WE?

K.I.D.S — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:54:30 CST

K.I.D.S is an educational N.G.O. that was established with the objective of supporting Argentinean kids living in poverty to remain in school through the development of after school programs.

K.I.D.S stands for Knowledge, Independence & Development of Skills.

The aim of these after-school programs is to stop the ever increasing number of kids from dropping out of school, who are growing up on the streets and instead help them grow in an environment where they can develop.

4) HISTORY / BACKGROUND

K.I.D.S — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:39:28 CST

From the ends of the XIX century, the city of Rosario has a very important number of its inhabitants surviving in conditions of poverty and homlessness,many of them in "precarious establishments" (to avoid using the term "shanty towns") with little or null infrastructure of basic services (sewers, potable water, etc). To date, the efforts of the government (provincial, municipal and national) have not obtained substantial improvements in the fight against poverty.

This situation, added to the years of recession and the national economic crisis of 2001, has caused an incipient increase of the criminal indices.

In Argentina, shanty towns are called "Villas Miseria" (Villa Misery). They take its name from the novel of Bernardine Verbitsky "Villa Misery is also America" (1957), where the terrible conditions of life of the immigrants are described.

Several governemts, either civil or military, have tried to eradicate those Villas with different success, that is to say, to demolish the houses and to move their inhabitants to wards some other and more "hidden" areas. Used as a euphemism, they are also called Villas Emergencia (Emergency Villas).

Formend by rural population who went to the big cities in search of work, the national program ARRAIGO estimated in 2004 that around 900,000 homes were located in villas misery all over Argentina.