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All GREEN SHELTER, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, REHAB CLINIC FOR ABANDONED, SPECIALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN 0-16
Ubicación
There were no facilities to care for disabled abandoned indigenous & urban children.Decided to enact. Any effort to bring restoration to their lives must also mean bringing restoration to the earth.As a self-sustainable complex the project provides children with the opportunity to heal through daily interaction w/wind,solar,water systems in an all green bagged-adobe facility, the children's home.
Sobre ti
Sección 1: Sobre ti
Sección 2: Sobre tu organización
Is your initiative connected to an established organization?
Sí
Nombre de la organización
Los Ojos de Dios, Inc.
Sitio web de la organización
Teléfono de la organización
915 539-8894
Dirección de la organización
Miguel de la Madrid #8768
País de la organización
México, CHH
Tu organización es
OSC/ONG
How long has this organization been operating?
Más de 5 años
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tu idea
Name Your Project
All GREEN SHELTER, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, REHAB CLINIC FOR ABANDONED, SPECIALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN 0-16
Describe Your Idea
There were no facilities to care for disabled abandoned indigenous & urban children.Decided to enact. Any effort to bring restoration to their lives must also mean bringing restoration to the earth.As a self-sustainable complex the project provides children with the opportunity to heal through daily interaction w/wind,solar,water systems in an all green bagged-adobe facility, the children's home.
Country your work focuses on
México, CHH
Innovación
What makes your idea unique?
One child per day was abandoned in ths streets of Juarez, Chih. Mx, the most violent city in the world. Up until this idea was put into action the state lacked infrastructure with specialized human resources to help them. After 8 yrs. of research an environment was created in which these children could thrive. Learning what we could give them in order to love them out of their isolation we tapped into a renewable resource within our own very harsh environment-the earth itself.The site functions because of the extreme desert climate in which it's located, from strong winds,sunlight,abundance of adobe earth,the entire project is powered by & made from completely renewable resources.As part of their rehabilitation and daily activities, children learn to care for the environment as they interact with the natural resources around them to learn that the only way to live in the world is to live in a sustainable way. As part of their therapy and skills learning ability for their present and their future, they interact with farm animals, grow their own food in the greenhouse and the orchard. They live in separate homes that provide a loving family setting of only 14 members each while they are part of a community as they interact and share with the other families in the project. They attend Montessori elementary school. Once each individual rehab program is achieved they are candidates for adoption, uniting them with adoptive families from both the US & MX. Single moms and specially challenged employees are provided a full-time job. These are people who have a family of their own who depend on them and, given their disadvantaged situation, are not able to find a job opportunity elsewhere. In sum, this has become one-of-a-kind ecological center in Latin America fully developed with biotechnical design. It's 45 cm. wide walls make it naturally thermal, 18 degrees C. different from the outdoors in extreme weather conditions, also in an effort to educate the new generations.
Do you have a patent for this idea?
No
Impacto
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Tell us about the social impact of your innovation. Please include both numbers and stories as evidence of this impact
Children who did not have a chance to survive or chance to dignity and love have turned their lives around. These are severly disabled children with microcephally, hydrocephally, cerebral palsy, total blindness, autism, ATD, Down syndrome, Rett Syndrome, etc. They had been thrown away or abandoned by their own parents or left orphans due to the extreme violence in Cd. Juarez. They had no access to medical help as the health laws in Mexico omitted orphans. One little baby, MaryPaz who only has 10% of her brain (her mother suffered from citomegalovirus) made us raise our voice. We were heard by the President of the country and laws were changed. As a result, this blind, deaf, mute little baby made politicians analyze this law, redesign it. Now all orphans in Mexico have access to public health coverage. This non-lucrative project has broken records in adoptions as 4 disabled children have been adopted by both US & MX families bringing brand new hope to couples who had not had the blessing of becoming biological parents. 5 more adoptions will consolidate in the weeks to come. New generations are being taught in how to interact with natural resources and be self-sustainable. The community as a whole has become interested and involved as they have been motivated to unite in action to do team work in this project as an oasis of love and family values in the midst of a drug-traffickers stricken war zone as the only hope is to work in community. By recently interconnecting our solar panels and wind generatiors to the grid, surplus power is also being fed into the electric company. New projects have been conceived using the same bioarchitecture, which will soon also allow low income families to build their homes with their own hands by utilizing dirt from their own land instead of having to dump it elsewhere. Children who were believed to have no hope have been rescued and their lives turned 180 degrees as now they have the chance to attend school and have a loving family of their own. Teenagers as volunteers also participate in the children's rearing as they learn to build and live in an all green facility surrounded by nature. Present payroll is 61, mainly women and specially challenged employees.
Problem: Describe the primary problem(s) that your innovation is addressing
Indigenous children from the Sierra Tarahumara (Raramuri) are born with disabilty as a consequence of the indians alcohol abuse. However when they discover their newborn is not "normal" or "healthy" they throw the baby away like trash, abandon him/her at the hospital as their tradition considers this a "curse". As a never ending circle one baby is abandoned in the state. This was a growing problem that had not been resolved. Los Ojos de Dios rescues these children, provide shelter, education, rehab therapy and the chance for adoption in a sustainable all green building facility. This is the largest state in the country, with serious health issues amongst the Raramuri indians that had not been addressed.
Actions: Describe the steps that you are taking to make your innovation a success. What might prevent that success?
Children who don't get adopted will of course grow. As they do, they are learning the necessary skills to become self-sufficient adults as they learn to work with the natural resources the region provides. They will thrive in a self-sustainable complex where they will not have to worry about paying for electricity or gas. Also a water recycling plant has made this facility independent from the water company by cleaning murky water from all the center. Water is cleaned by red worms and micro-organisms naturally growing in 25 tons of river pebbles. There is no need for sewage besides contributing to increase natural water reservoirs in the area. As a consequence operating costs are reduced by 53%. This makes the job of finding donations less difficult. This is not typically a giving/wealthy community, therefore an effort has been made to change the culture of team work. Community leaders have been targeted to educate them and see donations what they should be, a new paradigm to invest a little of their profit in making the less privileged productive people, part of the society as a whole, by participating all, so that donations do not become a burden on only a few, but working together under the reality that we fly higher if only we fly together. This project has survived the terrible ordeal of a war stricken zone against all odds. However, natural disasters might certainly be a factor to prevent success. Board members are working together to guarantee that the project will continue even if founder should not be able to continue with this mission of life. Nevertheless, countless conditions out of human control may prevent its success, regardless of present and future high impact-sustainability.
Results: Describe the expected results of these actions over the next three years. Please address each year separately, if possible
Promote and involve future governments for the benefit of the less privileged children in the area. Promote and spread new infant/youth social/community programs both educational/health. Finish expansion of photovoltaic power and involve new industrial parks and projects in the use of alternative power/systems. Install a hospital/clinic in the facility to medically assist/provide for low income families. Promote the use of our facility by low income families in the areas of hydrotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy, horse-back therapy, already available. As resources come in and benefactors join in, take in 30 more orphan indigeneous babies at present in waiting list. Create liasons with other not-for-profit associations in the area to become stronger thus benefit more people in need. Present a proposal to the new government taking office at the end of this year to build homes for Raramuri Indian using our proven to work/save methods of constructing with natural resources without having to remove them from their natural habitat. Once the solar expansion is completed seek for The Kyoto Protocol certification. Construct bagged-adobe homes for low income families (project already under study).
How many people will your project serve annually?
101‐1000
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
$100 ‐ 1000
Does your innovation seek to have an impact on public policy?
Sí
If your innovation seeks to impact public policy, how?
It already has as a new health law to protect orpahns has passed. We seek to continue to motivate public policy to change from conventional to green methods of constructing new infrastructure. Also, builders need to be obligated by law to observe the need of facilities for the specially challenged population.
Sustenibilidad
¿En qué fase está el proyecto?
Operando entre 1-5 años
Does your organization have a board of directors or an advisory board?
Sí
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with NGOs?
No
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with businesses?
Sí
Does your organization have a non monetary partnerships with government?
Sí
Please tell us more about how partnerships could be critical to the success of your innovation
Partnership with DIF (Integral Family Development) who controls legal non-profit adoptions in the country allows us to promote international/local adoptions of disabled orphans. Also, through the federation, our bio architectural concept is being promoted throughout the country and methods to live in a sustainable way while saving the earth are shared through the media.
We would like to learn more about how your initiative is financially supported. Please explain your business plan/revenue model
Medication is a bottleneck. It is obtained through donations in kind mainly by assembly plants, which are the main source of income in the community. Fund raiser events are planned on a yearly budget basis. Sponsorship programs to sponsor both children and employees. Grants. Annual TV funraiser.
La historia
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
The striking news of one child abandoned per day and the lack of answers to my question: What happens when an orphan is also disabled? led me to go to sleep very worried one night in March of 2002. At 1:30 I suddenly woke up after having dreamt that this would be my mission in life, to care for these children and provide answers to the unmet need. (PLEASE REFER TO WWW.OJOSDEDIOS.ORG. VIDEO) (ALSO REFER TO FACEBOOK: los ojos de dios - for several videos)
Tell us about the person—the social innovator—behind this idea.
Mother of two. Interpreter/translator English-Spanish. Mexican. Business administrator. Working experience of 10 years with Procter & Gamble as Recruiting & Hiring Manager/Industrial Engineering Manager. Host of "A las once tomando cafe" (Coffee at eleven) a non-profit community outreach radio broadcast show in an effort to counterbalance high rates of criminality and public safety conflicts in Cd. Juarez where I founded and direct non-profit Los Ojos de Dios. Reside in El Paso, TX, where the project is also incorporated as 501-C-3. I cross the border everyday into Cd. Juarez, MX to run Los Ojos de Dios. As I finished raising my two kids, I was convinced that it was the family love and personal attention that made them whole, sound, quality human beings who care for their fellow human. I had to do the same with children who did not have that love and that chance. I worry about violence, children witnessing death as part of their daily routine and industry harming our environment. I believe that we all have the power to influence others. That power and influence have to be put to work for the benefit of those less privileged. It is fulfilling to turn faces of sadness, despair and tears into faces full of hope. Nothing like a kiss from one of my children, nothing like the sound of their laugh and relief as I hug and kiss them, or see them leave the shelter to be united with adoptive parents. Nothing like the face of an adoptive mother who finally feels what it means to hold a baby of her own in her arms. If I can change one life, mine has been served its purpose. There is still so much to do.....Los Ojos de Dios, because this is the greatest love and the power of an embrace.
How did you first hear about Changemakers?
Social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn)
If through another source, please provide the information
ICRW
Does your project address any of the following barriers to women’s technology access and use?
Women’s time poverty, Economic or institutional constraints.
If you checked any of the boxes above, please explain how.
Low income women, mostly single mothers whose family depend on them as well as specially challenged ones, who have no access to job opportunities are provided a dignified job where they share the opportunity to impact a life. They have to be given constant personal growth and development seminars/traning. Their self-esteem is improved as well as their overall quality of live.
Does your project involve women in one or more of the following stages of the technology lifecycle? Identification of the problem the technology will solve:
Technology design, Assessment and evaluation.
If you checked any of the boxes above, please explain how you will ensure women’s involvement in each relevant phase of the technology lifecycle.
Women employees are involved in alternative power research & operation. Also University students (UACJ College of Architecture) and teachers are involved in the research, construction and operation of the project.
If women are a focus of your project, how did this focus evolve?
The project focused on women from its conception..
Which type of women will your project reach directly?
Rural, Urban, Low income.
In what ways does your project team/leadership involve women?
It is led by a woman/women., The core project team includes women..
Has your organization formed any new partnerships in response to this challenge? If so, with what type/s of organization/s?
Non-profit/NGO/community-based organization, Women's organization.
Has your project leadership had prior experience with the following?
Working with women, Working with technologies, Working to increase women's economic empowerment through technology, Working on innovation.
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