Global Volunteers works in close partnership with a remarkable, non-profit organization in the small community of Calderon on the outskirts of Quito. The Fundación de Damas Calderonenses (the Ladies of Calderon Foundation or FUNDAC) was started by a group of local mothers who needed child care for their children while they were at work. Given their extraordinarily difficult economic conditions, commercial child care wasn't possible, so they cooperatively started their own day care facility using volunteers to care for the kids.
Today, FUNDAC takes in pre-school children from families of meager means, and provides them a nurturing, stimulating and safe environment in which to thrive. Together with Global Volunteers, FUNDAC has built a two-story childcare center with a spacious playground to accommodate the ever-growing population of pre-schoolers, and has greatly improved it's original center in the village marketplace. It's a true example of cross-cultural cooperation and appropriate development assistance at its finest. Join us!
