we accompany
2000 families
Our programs
Our programs are primarily focused on:
Promoting the integral development of children from pregnancy through the first years of life.
Accompanying families according to the specific needs identified in each case.
Training mothers in parenting and childcare, as well as in trading skills and entrepreneurship.
All beneficiary families receive personalized accompaniment in their homes, where we identify family risk factors, strengths, and existing resources that can be mobilized to help them achieve their goals. Based on this, we design interventions to find effective solutions to challenges related to health, housing, basic services, income, and education.
Family Child Development Program
Family Child Development Program
We seek to promote the integral development of children aged 0 to 5 who are experiencing malnutrition or living in situations of social risk, so they can reach their full potential and access a future with better opportunities.
The program includes the following areas:
Nutrition and Food Security: We provide nutritional check-ups for children experiencing malnutrition in order to detect and address risk situations early. We also train mothers to prepare nutritious and healthy meals using the resources available to them. In addition, we provide specialized milk or food when recommended by professionals.
Early Childhood Stimulation: Children are evaluated in our centers by an early childhood development specialist who monitors their development. Through our Early Education at Home (ETEC) program, a member of our team visits the homes of families living in vulnerable contexts to provide mothers with personalized activity guides to stimulate their children according to their age and developmental stage. In this way, we promote learning through play while strengthening the mother-child bond and supporting each child’s cognitive, socio-emotional, and physical development.
Family Support: Our social services team carries out assessments and provides personalized follow-up for each family in areas such as health, household economy, housing, access to education, identity documentation, rights, parenting practices, and hygiene, among others.
Parenting Support Workshops: We organize workshops for mothers focused on childcare, the development of parenting skills, positive parenting, nutrition, healthy habits, hygiene, health, and access to rights.
Recycling Workshops: Mothers participate in these spaces where they learn to create useful items for their families using recycled materials, while also strengthening community ties and sharing experiences with their peers.
Exporting the etec model
With the support of Fundación PepsiCo Argentina, we successfully expanded our Early Education at Home (ETEC) model, which is part of our Family Child Development Program. This initiative reached Mar del Plata, in partnership with Asociación Civil Adelante, and Tigre and Zárate, together with Fundación Más Humanidad.
The ETEC methodology focuses on nutritional monitoring and early childhood stimulation for children aged 0 to 3, promotes positive parenting, and strengthens children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development through play-based activities. At the same time, it provides training for mothers, fathers, and caregivers to foster strong bonds and support holistic early childhood development.
Exporting this model allows us to reach new communities and expand our impact, supporting more children and families, and helping transform their futures.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Program
We support the formation of mutual support groups among pregnant women living in vulnerable contexts. Our goal is to ensure their access to healthcare and to promote the development of a healthy mother–child bond.
Through this program we offer:
Health Check-ups: We work to ensure that every woman receives the necessary medical check-ups during pregnancy and has access to the recommended tests, both routine and high-risk.
Family Support: Through our social services area, we provide close support to each mother and her family, offering guidance and helping ensure that every mother has what she needs for the arrival of her baby.
Motherhood Preparation Workshops: We offer workshops for mothers focused on care practices, strengthening the mother–child bond, and preparing for the baby’s birth.
Practical Workshops: Each expectant mother participates in workshops where they make clothing, blankets, toys, and accessories for their baby.
Newborn Health Check: We carry out health check-ups for newborns at our Center and make the appropriate referrals when necessary.
Trade Skills
Trade Skills Program
We provide training courses for mothers with the goal of giving them tools to improve their families’ quality of life and achieve greater economic self-sufficiency in their households.
Through this program we offer:
Training courses: In our different skills workshops, participants learn the basic techniques needed to produce and sell products and/or services.
Development of Sales Channels: We support participants in identifying and accessing spaces to commercialize their products, both with individual customers and wholesale buyers.
Financial Education and Marketing Workshops: We provide training on topics related to entrepreneurship, financial education, and household economics, so that what they learn can contribute to the development of individual or community-based ventures.
Each year, the program has a meaningful impact on the lives of many women by strengthening their self-confidence, helping them build support networks, and developing new skills that become a source of livelihood.
homes
homes Program
"Refugio Madre Teresa de Calcuta"
We operate a transitional home in Añatuya that shelters court-referred children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 who are facing different situations of social risk.
There, we cover their needs for nutrition, clothing, housing, education, healthcare, play, and recreation. The home also offers academic support classes, recreational workshops, trips, and educational activities that allow children to develop their natural talents.
"Casa de madres"
In Añatuya, we also run a transit home for mothers and their children who had to leave their homes due to situations of violence or high social risk.
During their stay, we support mothers in developing parenting skills to care for their children and work with them to redefine their housing and self-sufficiency plans for the future.
Health
Health Program
HEALTH PROGRAM
In partnership with Cuerpo & Alma and Aéreo Asociación Civil, we work to improve access to healthcare and the well-being of communities living in vulnerable and isolated contexts. We offer:
- Prevention, health education, and the promotion of healthy habits.
- Medical care and early detection of diseases.
- Timely treatment for identified health conditions.
Through a comprehensive and human-centered approach, we organize monthly trips with volunteer doctors to these communities. This work responds to the critical reality in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Chaco, and Salta, which face a serious healthcare crisis marked by limited access to medical services, a shortage of healthcare professionals, the absence of specialists, lack of basic resources, and infrequent medical attention.
Our social services teams also follow up with each patient, ensuring that medical recommendations are followed and providing support to those who may have difficulties understanding or accessing their treatment.
Several specialists in medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, otorhinolaryngology, traumatology, family medicine and ophthalmology offer medical assistance and teaching.
ALLIANCE "EL IMPENETRABLE"
In coordination with Cuerpo&Alma, Monte Adentro, Aéreo and Pata Pila, this project, which began in 2021, seeks to achieve the comprehensive sustainable development of rural communities in “El Impenetrable”, Chaco province, promoting and accompanying programs in four priority axes: education, health, training for work with an entrepreneurial imprint and community strengthening.
From Haciendo Camino, we intermediate with our Family Child Development and Trades Programs.
With the aim to prevent and eradicate child desnutrition, a nutritionist from our team helds nutritional attentions, alimentary counseling, pregnancy follow up and health training workshops for mothers in the communities.
As regards the Trades Program, once a week two types of workshops are held: cooking and sewing for women, with the objective of strengthening ties and providing practical training and support, so that they can undertake enterprises with the capacity to generate income and improve their lives.
Mobile Outreach: Reaching Where Others Don’t
We visit remote towns and rural communities to reach more families and communities.
Using the same approach and tools offered in our Centers, our team also travels regularly to 27 towns and rural areas. There, we provide ongoing support and services through professionals and volunteers who travel weekly or biweekly to some of the most isolated locations.
The goal of this outreach is to bring Haciendo Camino’s programs closer to families who live far away and for whom traveling 20, 30, or even 50 kilometers to a Center can be extremely difficult.
