INSTITUTIONAL PROFIL

Name of the Institution: 
Centro de Rehabilitación Cochabamba – CERECO

Address: 
Avenida 9 de Abril Nº E – 1506

Telephone: 
+591-4-4233041

Fax:  
+591-4-4540580

Website: 
http://www.cerecobo.org/

Email: 
cereco@supernet.com.bo

Contact:  
Lic. Ibeth Morón Robles

Number of Employees: 
54 people

Description of Work Areas:
 
Medical attention and physical rehabilition unit
. Physiology, Neurology, Neuropediatrics, Rheumatology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy. 
 
Multidisciplinary Attention Unit (CEMUA)
- Early stimulation, psycopedagogy, psychology, and audiology.
 
Community Extension and Services Unit
- School integration project (PIE)
Attend to children at the periphery with different disabilities in their schooling process and organize teacher training workshops about learning disabilities and conduct issues. Up to date we have worked with 20 schools, approximately 3,800 girls and boys that came to the project with a similar number of mothers, fathers, or tutors and 420 teachers in technical trainings. 
- Integrated Life and Work School Project “ESVIDA – CERECO”
A project developed to integrate boys, girls and adults of different capacities into communities and workplaces

Special Education Unit
Bringing special education services to young boys and girls diagnosed with low and moderate levels of mental retardation.
- Special Education School
(from 1st to 6th grade and two special courses for each student with schools for children with cerebral palsy and autism.
- Projected Workshops
(Art and woodworking, carpentry, dessert making, weaving, sewing, gardening, and ceramics.
 
The Foundation: 
The Cochabamba Rehabilitation Center CERECO, was founded in the city of Cochabamba on September 17th, 1975 as a non-profit Social Service Organization without time constrictions formed by willing partners with the goal of working for physical and mental rehabilitation.
Supreme Decree Number 181521 on September 20th, 1976 recognized CERECO as a legal entity and approved CERECO’s statutes.
In the years 1989 and 1997 CERECO received support from Cochabamba’s TELEMARATON.
In February 2002, the Asamblea Extraordinaria decided to nominate CERCO to the Archbishop of Cochabamba who was then Archibishop Monseñor Tito Solari.
In August of 2002 through an Archbiscopal decree, CERECO was declared an official Foundation of the Archbishopric as legal religious entity number 007/02

VISIÓN 
To integrate people of different capacities into the community by the help of different projects and units such as: The physical rehabilitation and medical attention unit, The multidisciplinary center for learning and teaching, and extension programs to the community. 

MISSION 
To lend integrated services to the temporarily or permanently physically handicapped, meeting learning and special education needs and facilitating their active integration into the society.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE
To lend quality integrated services in physical rehabilitation, special education, and extension to the community of all those people with handicaps both physical or mental and learning difficulties.

Volunteer Work Areas: 
• Physical Rehabilitation and Medical Attention Unit
• Special Education Unit
• Multidisciplinary attention and support for the learning and teaching process unit. (CEMUA).
• Service and community extension unit.

Requirements: 
Academic Training in: Psychology, Pedagogy, Special Education, Physical Therapy, Kinestesiology, Audiology, Neurology, Traumatology, and Rheumatology.

Payment (If yes, how much): 
None

Housing for Volunteers:
None

References of Prior Volunteers (email): 
cereco@supernet.com.bo

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