Self Help
Young people and adults enjoy an excellent experience of apprenticeship in shops alongside small businesses in the WBC, businesses dedicated to furniture carpentry, didactic toys, textile items, baking, restaurant service, cosmetology and service areas of industrial mechanics and sales.
These production areas were created with the purpose of teaching and, in some cases, contributing to the financing of the programs of the social area.
Our businesses provide quality products and services to the Quito community as well as educational opportunities for the working boys and their families.
HOPELESSNESS LEFT BEHIND FOREVER.
Piedad Perdomo,
WBC Graduate, 1992
“My mother, my brother and sister and I entered the WBC in 1982. My mother worked as a domestic servant and our life was full of privation. The WBC gave us security, protection, education and values. Although there were about 2000 members, we always felt that we were part of a “family”.
I studied sales and marketing and later obtained a loan from the Center to begin my first business, a fast food restaurant. Today I work with my sister who graduated in cosmetology. We run a beauty salon. My brother studied auto-mechanics and my mother learned baking. The WBC gave us the opportunity to prosper in life.
My future plan is to create a cosmetology academy of my own.”