Juconi Led By Sylvia Reyes

This is one of the worst slums in Ecuador. It is a place where the mothers sell themselves before their children and relatives molest children. The parents here stand helpless. Children and women are abused in almost every house of this one-room bamboo shacks of La Isla Trinitaria . This slum is situated close to the filthy mangrove swamps at the mouth of the River Guayas and it is the slum where Juconi – which is funded by the International Children's Trust works.

Juconi is an organization thats led by Sylvia Reyes. After working for years with these children she has finally realized that for this children the biggest problem is not poverty but the cycles of neglect and abuse that had plagued their families for generations. Such cycles in fact made it impossible to achieve progress. And the progress would not be achieved simply by sending the children to school. Else it was a progress that could not be achieved simply by ensuring that the children ate properly, or tended to their medical needs.

Juconi is funded by the International Children's Trust. This is one of the three charities that are being supported by Independent Christmas Appeal and is one of the most well known charities in the region. Based on their survey they decided the parents and the broader family as well.

Juconi found out that they needed to work in an environment that was invariably gloomy and full of bad elements. For instance often while working with children they would find the mother knocked out from drugs or drinking or just tired while her child would go out to make money apart from consoling her if she was sad. It was invariably one of the grossest forms of distorted parenting and so it was a must to look after the needs of the children the parenting notion should be set right.

Juconi thus found out that the children of the slums were consistently abused and in fact deprived of any meaningful kind of childhood. Thanks to the parents suffering from deprivation they even had no idea what healthy parenting was and they had real attachment problems. In fact the organization found out that the parents had no idea about what their role was supposed to be.

Juconi which means juntos con los ninos or an organization that looks together with the children thus focuses on the best opportunity to improve the lives of the whole family unit. Juconi