Caputo Children´s Fund

HISTORY

Dr. Salvatore Caputo, Executive Director of Caputo Children´s Fund, traveled to Central & South America, Africa, Brazil and Philippines for work duties in 1968 to 2002. While there, he and his wife helped at residential facilities for adults with physical challenges, homeless elderly people and street children. He also worked inflexibly in remote villages in Guatemala, Central America, where he now resides.  

In 1968, the first time he visited Guatemala, he was astonished to see so many street children besieged to survive, sleeping on sidewalks, to reduce their desperation and hunger, they become inhalant addicts, sniffing industrial solvents. Upon his return to Guatemala in 2002, he founded Universal Ministries, a Non-Denomination, Non-Profit Church Organization and it was registered at the Office of Delaware State, USA, on March 24, 2002 as a registered Charitable Organization for the only purpose to aid Guatemala City´s street children and homeless elderly people. But most of donation in food and clothing came from his own pocket, spending a considerable amount of his many years of hard work saved money.

The Universal Ministries is dedicated in helping children in need with education, medical care, social opportunity and is done with love, dignity and respect for each child´s as an individual.

MISSION

So touched by such inhuman worldwide treatment to people because of their inability to defend themselves or provide proper food and  accommodation, we created the new Non Profit Organization, the CAPUTO CHILDREN´S FUND, that is committed to improve the lives of the poorest of the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed in Africa and Guatemala. Our mandate is building better communities through compassion, love and assistance. We assist individuals, especially street children, and families to empower themselves to become self-sufficient by providing education, health care and financial assistance when we can.

The present situation of world food insecurity cannot leave us indifferent. Socrates said long ago that as long as one man goes hungry there would always be war. You can play a vital role in creating a world free of hunger and extreme poverty.

Chronic hunger means that millions of children die before reaching their teens, adults never attain their full potential, and communities and nations are stalled on the road to development. Hunger in these proportions represents a stunning failure on the part of humanity.

Humankind has the power to effect change; to end hunger, to fight poverty and disease, and to banish illiteracy. We cannot tolerate hunger and malnutrition. We have the techniques and the resources to eliminate them. What is lacking is human solidarity and political will.

CAPUTO CHILDREN´S FUND Is an International Charitable and Social Welfare Entity, nonprofit, apolitical, non-religious and independent Non Governmental Organization (NGO), dedicated to provide humanitarian assistance to people with extreme poverty and where inevitability necessity of food, education, literacy, health and sanitation, human development, and all sorts of needs without regard to race, religion or national origin. The primary objective is to aid starving children. We operate from Guatemala City.The Foundation is registered at the Government Ministry under the following numbers:

Number 24850, folio 24850, book 1 of Electronic System, 10/12/2009. Application N0. 51091118430.

CAPUTO CHILDREN´S FUND is not affiliated with or associated with any other health or human service agency.

Goals and objectives.

The aims and objectives of the Association are: to help people in the following distinctions:

• Neglected children known as the street children;

• Abandoned Seniors;

• People with low incomes or in poverty;

• All kinds of people who suffer from the effects left by the armed conflict in Guatemala.

• People who suffer from interdiction of alkaloids, drugs and alcohol.

• Promote a culture of continuous evaluation of education programs within and outside the Republic of Guatemala;

• Giving certainty to the distribution of aid all people in extreme need;

• Promoting systematic process of education at all educational levels;