Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos

NPH ( German Our Little Brothers and Sisters ) is a 1954 in Mexico, founded by U.S. Roman Catholic priest William Wasson Christian Children's Fund. The organization maintains orphanages in several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean ( eg in Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Peru and Bolivia).

History

Trigger the establishment in August 1954 was a 16 -year-old street boy, stole the money from the church of the Church in Mexiko-Stadt/Mexiko, worked as a minister in the William Wasson. The priest asked the juvenile court to be allowed to care for the boy, after which the judge sent him more street children over the next few days. At the end of 1954 this group had grown already to 32 children. 1959 girls were first recorded in 1963 it already assisted 396 children. In order to support and coordinate the work of Father Wasson may, Inc. founded in 1969, the Our ​​Little Brothers and Sisters, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

1970, this former sugar plantation was in Miacatlán, south of Mexico City, purchased and erected its first children's village. 1986 opened the first orphanage of the organization outside of Mexico in Honduras, still came in the years to facilities in Haiti ( since 1988), Nicaragua ( since 1995), Guatemala ( 1996 ), El Salvador ( since 1999), the Dominican Republic ( since 2002), Peru (since 2004) and Bolivia ( added in 2005 ). Currently a total of about 3,000 children are cared for, since its founding there are over 15,000.

NPH now maintains funding agencies in the USA ( Headquarters), Germany, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, France, Spain, Mexico, Italy and the Netherlands. William Wasson has been awarded, among others, with the Order of the Aztec Eagle ( Aguila Azteca ), the highest award of Mexico, the non- Mexicans for services to the country, excellent.

Philosophy

Auxiliary NPH looks by his own admission his mission is to provide orphaned and abandoned children with shelter, food, clothing, medical care and school education. The children should grow up in a Christian-oriented, family environment in which to unconditional acceptance and love, sharing, cooperation and responsibility will be encouraged. An adoption by patrons is not permitted because the children are to be educated to become responsible citizens of their respective countries in order to thus make in adulthood as responsible, independent and socially engaged citizens contributing to the development of their respective countries can.

The supervised children in the orphanages is the possibility of a professional or university education possible in the former part -house training workshops. A in the facilities to be provided forming social year is for all former residents obligation.

Our little brothers and sisters e.V.

The German representative of the organization was founded in 1984 and has its headquarters in Karlsruhe. The Our ​​Little Brothers and Sisters Association is recognized by the Inland Revenue as charitable donations and bears the seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues ( DZI).

The financial support of the organization may be included in a sponsorship, individual donations or support for a project (eg construction of training workshops ). In addition, Our Little Brothers and Sisters eV operate an online donation shop.

NPH Austria - help for Orphans

Since 1984, the international children's charity is also represented with a seat in Vienna. This site was the first of the now nine European fundraising offices.

NPH Austria bears since 2001, when one of the first Austrian organizations, the Austrian Spendengütesiegel and guarantees objective and verifiable standards in the application and in the management of its donations.

By applying donations and sponsorships NPH Austria ensures the care and education of children and the funding of projects. Also regularly volunteer volunteers and civil servants seconded to the project countries. Other important tasks are information work and raising awareness of the Austrian population for issues of development cooperation in Latin America.

In 2006, received two volunteers of the Association of the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs the first prize in the Voluntaria 2006 " volunteers move Austria - Voluntary Move Europe ".

Foundation Our Little Brothers and Sisters ( Switzerland )

In 1985, the Swiss representative of NPH joined under the name of "Our Little Brothers and Sisters ", based in St. Gallen this. The Board of Trustees amtet volunteers. The office is located in Zurich.

The Foundation in Switzerland is recognized by the Federal Supervisory Board for Foundations profit organization and is audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers AG annually. The financial support of the organization may be included in a sponsorship, individual donations or support for a project (eg construction of training workshops ). Also regularly volunteer volunteers are dispatched to the project countries.