History

Founded in Costa Rica in 1932, Roblealto Child Care Association is a Christian non-profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that responds to the social problems of children and their families. For 71 years, we have provided quality services and transparency in the management of our programs.

 

Who Do We Help?

Roblealto provides services for approximately 650 children and adolescents who have little access to social services and few economic resources or opportunities for their healthy development. The families that we attend to are at risk in a number of ways:

• Insufficient economic resources
• Physical or mental health issues
• Little formal education
• Abuse in the home
• Children with behavioral and educational difficulties
• Mothers who are the heads of the home and need a helping hand to overcome substantial social and economic obstacles
• Dysfunctional family environments that produce emotional issues for the children.

 

How Do We Help?

Roblealto is more than a safe place for children and much more than a place for them to find nourishment. Roblealto provides integrated services that transform these young lives.

Our priorities in attending the children and adolescents are as follows:

• Protection
• Education
• Nourishment
• Nurture health, welfare and psychology
• Christian teachings
• Security and stability
• Entrance to Enrique Strachan School (location of Hogar Bíblico Roblealto), where their education is adapted to the individual needs of each child, providing them with the best opportunities for the present and future.

Roblealto has several programs that focus on the healthy development of at risk children and adolescents:

• The three day care centers, Home of the Happy Child, 15 de Setiembre, and El Manantial, that care for children from 9 months to 12 years old . All the children sleep in their own homes.
• Boarding lodge Roblealto Bible Home: the children live there while they and their families are assisted. They are under the care of parental role models that re-enforce the ideal of a healthy stable home. The Henry Strachan School (Roblealto Bible Home) specializes in learning difficulties and emotional traumas. The children of the boarding lodge attend programs here.
• PAE is the Program for Graduating Adolescents, which provides follow up on the adolescents after 12 years of age (when they have left the youth centres). The program continues to help them in several areas including psychological, spiritual and educational matters, as well as with scholarships to help defray the costs of transportation, educational materials and food, in order for them to continue their studies.

If you'd like more information about these programs write to us at: sponsors@roblealto.org

Organizational Structure

We rely on a Assembly of Active Associates made up of volunteers, whose social awareness motivates them to work with at risk families and children. The Assembly appoints the 10 members of the Board of Directors, who occupy their posts for a period of one year and work in a number of areas, including finance and human resources management.

The highest authority is the General Director, who is in charge of implementing the policies of the Board of Directors and coordinating the actions of the Program,Fund Raising and Production Projects Directors (this last one manages an Avicultural Farm – another way in which we generate funds for Roblealto programs).