This year we will maintain our focus, once again partnering with local and national authorities to fight against child labor.
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SALEM Handmade is a social enterprise start up. We are seeking angel investors who want to empower and enable women to create their own thriving social enterprise.
There are 12 teenagers, aged 12 to 21, in the most grown-up group in SALEM. Some of them have already been coming to SALEM on a daily basis for many years, others just for a couple months, but one thing is clear: They have real team spirit – in no small part due to their…
We currently have one internship available for an Education & Teaching assistant for the academic year 2019-2020. Apply for this internship and do something amazing and life-changing! As one of our interns and a member of a professional, dynamic team you will take responsibility for, and also have the freedom to contribute your own skills…
Its for nothing that we call our volunteers “Los Angeles”, as the volunteers provide a very special and valuable service to the children and community of Mindo. Volunteering has a long tradition in SALEM: every year since 2002, three different volunteers have spent their gap year here in SALEM Ecuador! The German volunteers have traditionally…
Christmas time is often not easy for the SALEM children. It should be a family celebration, but it’s often not so easy at home. Juan (15), Martín (10) and Sabina (8) live with their mother in a small, dark, and musty room. A few months ago, they fled gang violence from the province of Esmeraldas…
Peace is a path, not a state. It is something that we must constantly move towards. At SALEM Ecuador, we put peace into practice. We share with you our Christmas wish for peace: Women, children, and families living in violence-free homes. At this very moment we are developing an action plan for SALEM to give families…
This past Sunday, SALEM Ecuador volunteers prepared and delivered hundreds of seedlings and sacks of compost to local families that participate in the SALEM Ecuador Family Garden Initiative. Jonas Lange, Director of SALEM Ecuador gets to the heart of the matter, “The garden is a therapeutic space. The Family Garden Initiative is a perfect opportunity…
SALEM Handmade is a social enterprise start up. We are seeking angel investors who want to empower and enable women to create their own thriving social enterprise.