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How We Do What We Do - Our Strategy
Where We Do What We Do - Our Focus
Our Strategy

Coordinate activities through The Help and Hope Center (El Centro de Ayuda y Esperanza) that provides accountability, selection criteria, and credibility within the community.

Work alongside local churches, ministries and community leaders.

Provide developmental services such as education and vocational training.

Provide for basic needs such as food, shelter and safety.

Provide deep caring relationships.

Priorities are services for children and Colombian refugees.

The Help and Hope Center is the flagship ministry for all we do. Social programs and other ministry activities will be offshoots of and in support of the Center. Help and Hope Centers will be duplicated in other areas of need first in the Colombian frontier of Venerzuela, then in other parts of the Venezuelan Andes, then to other Andean Countries with similar needs to serve Colombian refugees such as Ecuador and Peru.

Day to day operations of Venezuelan ministries will be managed by an Asociación Civil (Civil Association) called "Una Sonrisa Para Todos" (A Smile For All).
The Hope and Help Center

This Center (El Centro de Ayuda y Esperanza) is the culmination of effort to put our strategy into action and meets all of the components of our strategy..
Our Focus

VENEZUELA FIRST...

Then the rest of the Andes

Andean Aid serves in the Venezuelan frontier state of Tachira. The main activity takes place in and around the city of Rubio, which is about ten miles form the Colombian border. With half the Venezuelan population living in poverty and the frontier states of Apure, Tachira and Zulia hosting 180,000 Colombian refugees there is plenty to do right here for the foreseeable future.

A number of poor communities are nestled in the mountains surrounding Rubio. One of these communities, Villa Bahareque is of particular interest to Andean Aid. Several families have been helped to date and we plan to participate in new initiatives to help the children in the two hundred households there.

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As the Help and Hope Center and other services and ministries to the poor prove effective our plan is to expand to other areas of the Colombian Frontier in Venezuela. Places such as San Antonio del Tachira and Ureña, also in Tachira state, are in critical need of such services since they are and entry point for many Colombian refugees.

The other Colombian frontier states of Zulia and Apure also experience the same problem of poverty and Colombian refugee influx. Though not on the frontier the Andean state of Trujillo is the poorest state in the nation.

Ecuador and Bolivia experience the same issues with Colombian refugees. Andean Aid is already developing relationships with organizations serving in Ecuador.