Santa en las Calles is a nonprofit Foundation, which distributes food, clothing, and toys to people who are experiencing extreme poverty in remote rural and urban areas of Venezuela. There are three main altruistic activities associated with this foundation. The first activity entitles the recollection of goods throughout the city of Maracaibo. The second activity, commonly referred to as “Santa's Workshop”, begins three weeks before Christmas. The main goal is to organize and gift wrap all of the collected presents, which were raised by the foundation's volunteers called “elves.” Finally, the third main activity called “Gift Delivery” is completed over a period of a few days by a convoy of buses filled with elves. These volunteers joyfully hand deliver all of the presents to various underserved and deprived communities within and around the city of Maracaibo during the Christmas holidays.
Responsibilities:
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Completed logistics and coordinated the three main events (i.e., collection of goods, preparation and delivery of gifts). Collected donations, bought, sorted, wrapped and delivered gifts in urban and rural/remote communities
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Coordinated interviews, advertisement and fundraiser
Logistics & Public Relations
Manager
Fundación Santa en las Calles (FSC)
Maracaibo, Venezuela
December 2011 - December 2012
Phone: +58 (414) 6968698
Information area in Santa's Workshop.
Classification and wrap gifts area.
End of day meeting of the two groups, happy to succesfully fulfill their mission.
Information area in Santa's Workshop.
VOLUNTEER WORK
Construction Volunteer
Un Techo para mi País Venezuela
(TECHO)
Caracas, Venezuela
May - September 2011
Phone: +58 (212) 2399627
Construction in May 2011.
Before going to build, in May 2011.
Will is POWER, September 2011.
Construction in May 2011.
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. In 1997 a group of young people began working towards the dream of overcoming poverty. The sense of urgency that existed in these slums massively mobilized them to build transitional houses together with the families that were living in these unacceptable conditions. This group of young people focused their energy on finding concrete solutions to the problems that the communities faced every day. This initiative became an institutional challenge that today is shared across the continent.
Responsibilities:
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Assembled prefabricated wooden houses
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Worked with the community development in slums and fostered social awareness