A typical Ecuadorian potato stew served with boiled eggs and avocado. Recipe: Locro de Papa Ingredients (for 10 people): 250 g of cheese (feta cheese) 10 potatoes 5 cloves of garlic 1⁄2 red onion 1⁄2 green bell bell pepper 1 leek 2 carrots 1 handful of fresh leaf coriander (cilantro) 3 avocados 5 eggs 1⁄2…
Although we provide childcare, education and social services, the kitchen and dining room is the heart of SALEM Ecuador. The fact that we insist on diverse, healthy and vegetarian food for the children and youth in SALEM is related to our values, which ideally should be reflected in everything we do. We believe in a…
In an interview, Jonas Lange, the project manager of SALEM International in Mindo, Ecuador, tells us how the Corona pandemic has affected the children and youth center. How has the virus changed SALEM? From March to mid-September, the center could not take care of any children or adolescents due to Corona but since September, thanks…
Christmas is an important time for SALEM children! But this year the celebration had to be adapted to the pandemic, but of course this did not stop us from preparing a feast for the children and young people. Thanks to an invitation, four groups spent the morning and afternoon on two days in a lodge…
Hello my name is Molly Brown and I am SALEM Ecuador’s fundraiser. I am here to share with you a very special project that we started in this month of December. We have named it Project Practice Peace because it embodies the very core value that we stand for at SALEM International: Practicing and…
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.