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+400 employees
Established in 1997
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WHAT IS TECHO? TECHO is a youth led non-profit organization present in Latin America & the Caribbean. Through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty with youth volunteers, TECHO seeks to overcome poverty in slums. TECHO is convinced that poverty can be permanently eradicated if society as a whole recognizes poverty as a priority and actively works towards overcoming it. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES (1) The promotion of community development in slums, through a process of community strengthening that promotes representative & validated leadership, drives the organization and participation of thousands of families living in slums to generate solutions of their own problems. (2) Fostering social awareness and action, with special emphasis on generating critical and determined volunteers working next to the families living in slums while involving different actors of society. (3) Political advocacy that promotes necessary structural changes to ensure that poverty does not continue reproducing, and that it begins to decrease rapidly. VISION A fair and poverty free society, where everyone has the opportunities needed to develop their capacities and fully exercise their rights MISSION Work Tirelessly to overcome extreme poverty in slums, through training and joint action of families and youth volunteers. Furthermore, to promote community development, denouncing the situation in which the most excluded communities live. And lastly, to advocate for social policies with other actors in society.
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Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil
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