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SOS-Kinderdorf International has been active in Ecuador since 1963 when Gerhard Engel, founder of Ecuador's first SOS Children's Village, made contact with our organisation. By 25 September 1963, the construction work on the first SOS Children's Village in the country had already started in the Ecuadorian capital Quito. A total of twelve family houses were gradually finished in this village up until 1970. In 1979, the SOS Children's Villages in Esmeraldas and Ibarra went into operation. In April 1997, SOS Children's Village Ricaurte followed. There are now also numerous additional SOS facilities in this country, such as SOS Kindergartens, SOS Vocational Training Centres, and SOS Social Centres. The most recent Ecuadorian SOS Children's Village to date, in Portoviejo, became operational in Summer 1999 and was officially opened on 5 March 2001.
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The SOS Children's Village Portoviejo is located 5 km from Portoviejo, the capital of the province of Manabí and is situated directly on the road leading from Portoviejo to the seaside resort of Crucita. The region is quite rural, used for agricultural purposes and thus, the number of people living in the neighbourhood of the SOS Children's Village is quite reduced. Although there are also public schools next to the SOS Children's Village, the best infrastructure, such as different kinds of schools, medical centres, markets and department stores, is offered by the capital of the province, Portoviejo. The climate of the province of Manabí is very hot with pronounced rainy and dry seasons. The most important crops that are cultivated are coffee and cocoa but the main source of income is represented by the sea and its resources.
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The SOS Children's Village Portoviejo lies on a 5 ha site and consists of 12 family houses, a village director's house, an administrative building, a multi-purpose hall, an SOS Kindergarten, a house for SOS aunts, a village caretaker's house and a sports field. The children attend the SOS Kindergarten which is also open to children from the neighbourhood, the older children attend the public schools in Portoviejo.
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Guwahati SOS Children's Villages began its work in the Indian state of Assam, in the north-east of India, in 1983,
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