September 4th, 2001

Casa Alianza Nicaragua Opens Crisis Center for Girls

Casa Alianza Nicaragua will inaugurate today their first Crisis Center  for girls in Managua. The program, funded by the Inter American Development Bank with support from the Government of Japan, will offer a  residential home for 20 girls who wish to leave the street and focus on  the future.
 
The girl's Crisis Center will complete a series of integrated programs in Casa Alianza, which started services to street children in Nicaragua in September 1998. The programs will now include Crisis Centers for boys and girls; a Transition home for boys; a residential program for adolescent mothers and their babies; an HIV/AIDS awareness program; a Legal Aid program to defend child victims of human rights abuses; Family Reintegration; Spiritual development; psychology and Social work.
 
The inauguration will be attended by Maria Fernanda F. de Aleman, First Lady of Nicaragua; Eduardo Barcarcel, Representative of the Inter American Development Bank; Kunio Chimizo, Japanese Ambassador to Nicaragua; Bruce Harris, Latin American Director of Casa Alianza; and Zelmira Garcia, National Director of Casa Alianza Nicaragua. 
 
Casa Alianza serves more than 9,000 children each year in both residential and non residential programs in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The Regional Office for Casa Alianza is in Costa Rica.
 
If you would like to send a brief message to the girls in the Crisis Center (preferably in Spanish) to be read out at the inauguration, please send it to <canic@ibw.com.ni>
 
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For more information, please contact Lic. Zelmira Garcia in Managua at +505-268-6166
The inauguration will take place at 4pm. The Crisis Center is located de Montaya, 3 cuadras abajo y media cuadra al Lago, en Las Palmas, Managua.