The first lady Fabiola Yáñez participated this Friday in the inauguration of the San Hipólito Home in the Buenos Aires city of San Nicolás, a containment center for children and adolescents that was expanded and remodeled thanks to a donation from the Banco Nación Foundation (FBNA) that she presides over, reported sources from the entity.
The reforms of the institution included the restructuring of the bathrooms and changing rooms, together with the setting of the different spaces according to a friendly criteria for children and adolescents who reside there.
From the donation, the Home was able to be re-equipped “with winter and summer bedspreads, new beds, bedside tables, cribs, crib blankets and a dining set”, They detailed the fountains, and in addition all the dining room furniture was renewed, with new chairs plus the installation of a mangrullo for children’s games in the patio.
“Hogar San Hipólito is represented by women who honor and maintain the dream of those six women who founded it in 1906. The main objective is to develop a containment space that meets the physical, psychological and social needs of children and adolescents,” they added from the FBNA.
The target population, they added, It is made up of “girls from 0 to 18 years of age and boys from 0 to 6 years who are in a situation of psychosocial risk and violation of their rights, being victims, by action or omission, of physical or psychological violence, mistreatment, sexual abuse, abandonment or negligence”.
First Lady Fabiola Yañez toured the Hogar San Hipólito, in San Nicolás, and supervised the furniture donated by the Banco de la Nación Foundation. pic.twitter.com/xIDv9pAhAF
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At present, they completed from the Foundation, Hogar San Hipólito houses “22 boys, girls and adolescents” within the framework of its containment project with ages ranging from 5 months to 17 years, in the case of the oldest.
The San Hipólito Home began operating in 1916 at the initiative of a group of women from San Nicolás who, ten years earlier and under the support of the Orphanage Protection Society, They proposed to provide shelter and support for children and adolescents, an initiative that did not exist at that time in that city in the north of Buenos Aires.
