INSTITUTIONAL PROFIL

Name of the Institution:
Comunidad Terapéutica Puntiti (Puntiti Therapuetic Community)

Address: 
Calle Allzu entre18 y 14 Urbanización Rinconada, Zona Puntiti, Km. 5 a Sacaba, Casilla 5597, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Telephone: 
+591-4-4272755

Fax: 
+591-4-4271735

Website: 
www.hospitalarias.org, www.hospitalariasargentina.org

Email: 
centropuntiti@hotmail.com

Contact: 
Sister Ernestina Aros

Areas of Work: 
Boys and girls with varying degrees of mental handicaps.

Number of Employees: 
14 professionals, 6 nurses, 40 auxiliary, cleaning staff etc.

Description of Work Areas:
 
Health Program:
- Boys and girls with multiple handicaps, orphans or abandoned children, medical attention and physical mental and social rehabilitation.
- Recreation and personal assistance (helping them eat, dress, etc)

Education Program:
- Boys and girls with mental handicaps; multiple and in varying grades, autistic children, individualized education in classrooms of 12 children with materials in the humanities and workshops (card making, recycling, bijouterie).

The Foundation: 
Congregation of the Hermanas Hospitalarias of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Volunteer Work Areas:
 
Health Program:
- Pediatricians, occupational therapists, psychologists, etc.
- Volunteers that wish to help mental (and multiply) handicapped boys and girls with personal assistance and recreation (help them eat, dress, bathe)

Education Program:
- Special Ed. Teachers, pedagogs, asistant teachers, arts teachers that want to collaborate with the center in special education with autistic and handicapped children.

Requirements: 
- Dedicate yourself to 4 to 6 hours per day, five days a week and a minimum of 3 weeks.
- As a minimum volunteers should stay for one month. 
- Come with great motivation and a giving spriti
- Be disposed to complete assigned tasks and fulfill one’s responsibilities
- Be tolerant against frustration
- Practice good companionship: availability, patience, happiness and more
- Training in issues of handicaps.
- Not necessary to be a professional

Payment (If yes, how much): 
No

Housing for Volunteers: 
- You can eat the same food, breakfast and lunch, that the children eat
- There are no volunteer housing 

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