Working Boy Center

Working Boys' Center - Centro del Muchacho Trabajador
AbbreviationCMT
Established1964; 60 years ago (1964)
Location
Founder
John Halligan[1]
President
John James Halligan
Director
Gilberto Freire
AffiliationsJesuit, Catholic
WebsiteCMT

The Working Boys' Center (Centro del Muchacho Trabajador: CMT), also known as the Center for Working Families, is a facility in Quito, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1964. It offers social programs for the human and economic development of working boys (and girls since 1974)[2] and their families.[3] Its stated aim is to give working children help to escape from extreme poverty and to gain control of their own lives.[4] CMT states its approach to achieving this is by providing education for the working children and for their families, together with meals, health services, housing assistance, loans to start up microbusinesses, and cultural enhancement.[5][6]

  1. ^ ECUAVISA TV on Halligan and origins. Accessed 12 December 2016.
  2. ^ McGuire, Caitlin; Working Boys' Center (June 2019), "Service at the Working Boys' Center: An introduction to Quito, Ecuador, and your experience at the Working Boys' Center" (PDF), Center for Working Families, p. 14, Information brochure for volunteers, retrieved 29 October 2021
  3. ^ "OTRAƎDUCACION: Niños que trabajan y estudian (CMT, Ecuador)". OTRAƎDUCACION. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  4. ^ "CONDICIONES DE VIDA DE LOS NIÑOS DEL CENTRO DEL MUCHACHO TRABAJADOR E INFLUENCIA SOBRE SU DESARROLLO PERSONAL Y SOCIAL". prezi.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  5. ^ "Agasajo al Centro del Muchacho Trabajador". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  6. ^ Robalino, Patricia (2015). "Teatro y libro infantil sobre bomberos presentadó Verónica Bonilla "Valentina quiere ser bombero"". Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (in Spanish). House of Ecuadoran Culture: CCE Benjamín Carrión]. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2017. This work, ... published by the House of Ecuadorian Culture, is dedicated to children and young people of the Working Boy Center (CMT)" ... "Valentina wants to be a firefighter, is for children and performed by children and youth of the CMT.