Children's, Youth &
Community Center

Welcome

SALEM Ecuador is a childrens, youth and community center located in the small town of Mindo, in the cloud forest on the western side of the Ecuadorian Andes.

Our center is a place where children can enjoy their childhood, learn, play, and be accepted as part of a loving community.

We care for the most underprivileged and at risk children and young people of the village. We offer them loving care and help to find solutions to their most urgent problems.

We are passionate about providing excellent child care, education and social services! 


News from SALEM Ecuador

Stay up to date and learn about the traditions and activities of our beautiful community

We have finished our holiday camps. It has been great to be with our children and teenager, providing them with spaces where they can enjoy being children, learning, playing, and discovering themselves while growing up in the heart of a loving community. This year, we were accompanied by great “superheroes” who helped our guides to…

Efrain Toapanta and Molly Brown, friends of SALEM, owners of Casa Divina Eco Lodge and SabinaTour Operadora are part of our Corporate Sponsorship program. For many years Casa Divina has set an example for local businesses in the areas of social responsibility and sustainable tourism. Efrain’s parents came to Mindo 60 years ago, and he…

OUR BIG FAMILY

12.09.2022

From the moment a child or adolescent crosses our precious wooden door, he/she is immediately part of our big SALEM family. A family that shares love, peace, freedom, hope and at the same time all the values that identify us. We wonder how many children and teenagers have crossed through our door, walking the short…

On this occasion we visited an enterprise in Mindo, which is part of our Corporate Sponsorship program. Upon entering the place we were greeted with a big smile by Johana Gomez, manager of Mariposas de Mindo, who told us a little about the company. Mariposas de Mindo is a family business that has been in…

SALEM International in Ecuador is firmly committed to promoting the practice and protection of our rights. Due to the high incidence of violence in the Mindo community, our loving accompaniment team held a meeting with the children of our community. They shared traditional games, dynamics and stories with the slogan “Your body is yours, it…

Let’s put peace into practice

 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…

The Family Garden Initiative

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…

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