The Orphanage was Founded in the year 2000 by sister Rita de Zizzold (Mamá Rita). In Peru there are many unfortunate events that children are forced upon.
Most children do not have opportunities that first world children have. Mamá Rita seeks to save children’s lives and reduce human suffering, protect and restore livelihoods.
Her main mission was to help little girls that were being sexually abused by their own relatives, as well as others. The Orphanage “CARITAS FELICES DEL NIÑO JESUS DE PRAGA” nowadays is called “UNIENDO CORAZONES”.
Mamá Rita was unfortunately suffering from a disease called Alzheimer. Alzheimer is a neuro degenerative disease whish she has now passed away from. For this reason, the administration of the orphanage was sadly neglected. The benefactors were running away and she did not even realize it.
Nowadays the association is lead by Monica Quintanilla Bandin, who is the daughter of Mama Rita, she decided to leave everything and to help her mother and the children.
Our mission is to help little girls who who were abused by their own relatives and give them security, protection and speacialised attention.
All of which with the aim of helping them is their physical, mental, social and spiritual recovery.
The girls are sent to us by different national and international organisations such as INABIF, MIMDES, DEMUNAS, UGEL to name a few.
The help that we are trying to provide is not constant enough to provide the girls with the lifestyles that our vision requires.
The orphanage houses thirty girls between the ages of 6-18 years old but our institution struggles with the necessary resources to give them an adequate lifestyle.
We DO NOT receive any kind of help from the state.
They seldom come and do eventually check the conditions of the girls but if they see that the organization is not adequate, the orphanage could be closed down and the girls could be sent again to their homes where the initial problem arose.