Us

Daniëlle Children’s Fund Ecuador (DCF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

We accompany children, adolescents, and their families who are going through situations that jeopardize their right to live in family and community.

We offer preventive family support services, family and community based care, and we seek to promote deinstitutionalization.

Our philosophical basis is founded on collaborative and dialogical practices. Additionally, we are pioneers of change in the public policy of the country, co-constructing norms geared towards the implementation of the Alternative Modalities of Care.

We are accompanying the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion in Ecuador in a “National Strategy of Deinstitutionalization,” participating in the creation of a historical feat in the public policy for the protection of children and adolescents.

Our Purpose

We are co-constructors of new realities where children and adolescents can grow and enjoy in family and community.

The Values that Guide Us

Faith, Hope and Love

We have faith, above all in God, in others, and the process. Faith and love are our foundation which allows us to build relationships and infinite possibilities, generating hope at the same time.

Transparency

Everything we build belongs to the children, adolescents, families, and communities. We share our wisdom, knowledge, and experiences. We handle the received and generated funds with transparency.

Humility

We procure working from the position of not knowing. We are curious. We want to learn with the other person, valuing diversity and getting inspired in the richness of seeing reality in multiple ways.

Our Talents

We are a human team full of:

  • Innovation

  • Curiosity

  • Aperture

  • Flexibility
  • Reflection
  • Predisposition to share
  • Respect
  • Listening
  • Creativity
  • Spontaneity
  • Happiness
  • Responsability
  • Mutual care

Our Vision & Mission

Vision

We want to be an NGO that promotes children´s rights and contributes to eradicating the institutionalization of children and adolescents, innovating and sharing proposals, knowledge, and experiences with other public and private organizations involved in child protection.

Mission

Contribute to the co-construction of protective and healthy family and community surroundings for children and adolescents in Ecuador.

Our Philosophy

Is based on social constructionism – postmodernism, taking its shape in collaborative and dialogical practices.

This philosophy enables us to humanize the interventions with children, adolescents, and their families so that they and their communities can make their own desired changes.

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Our History

The Birth of an Idea

Nicoline van Egmond and Helma van der Hoeven decided to travel to Romania to volunteer for two weeks. In Bucharest, they reached a building with strong odors. Its facade was almost entirely made out of metal. One could sense sadness and injustice. When they arrived, the kids were playing outside, poorly dressed, and they hadn’t showered in a long time.

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