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The Diocese creates a project in Cartagena, under the protection of the Custodire association, to generate opportunities for children, adolescents and young people in the Villalba neighborhood.Looking at the home that saw Jesus grow up in the bosom of the Holy Family, the Nazareth project aims to be a residence for children, adolescents and young people that can give a comprehensive response to those who want to get out of the bonds of an addiction or those who have behavioral or school problems, or live in an unstructured family.

For this, the House of Formation and Spirituality San José in the Coto Dorda of Cartagena now becomes a home where opportunities can be generated for children, adolescents and young people of the Villalba Neighborhood.At the head of this exciting diocesan project are Ana Cruces, Carmen Gloria Miranda and the priest Juan Carlos Ponce, who thus continue the work started by Custodire, a sociocultural association that was established more than a decade ago for children, adolescents and young people of this neighborhood of Cartagena could look forward to the future.

"Nazareth aims to be a home that welcomes boys and girls who may need a place to feel safe and loved, to heal the wounds that life has caused in them; a place from which a future full of hope is proposed ", says Juan Carlos Ponce.A project that is structured around three pillars: the first is the personal and work promotion and orientation program; the second will improve the lives of these children through food, health and hygiene programs, and education and training; and, finally, the fundamental pillar, the home, which aims to host 20 children, although from this project they will accompany many more.

"The most important thing for us is to make that house a home, which, while being transitory, because they have their family of reference, is more permanent and where they can order their lives and consider what problems they have and how they can solve them, providing them with resources and loving them a lot, because love is the key to reaching those hearts and getting the potential they have ", highlights Ana Cruces.The Nazareth Home was created to respond to a social emergency that, according to those responsible, has generated an urgency in the heart, and that needs volunteers and financial support to sustain the house and the jobs it generates.The main objective of this home is that those who inhabit it feel deeply loved and cared for, an essential requirement for their liberation and promotion.

"It is a neighborhood of extraordinary people who in times of economic crisis have been greatly affected and need a helping hand so that these children and young people can have the same opportunities as everyone else", Ana Cruces.A home that is born to care"Caring for the people, caring for everyone, for each one, with love, especially for children, the elderly, those who are more fragile and who often remain on the periphery of our hearts." With those words, Pope Francis began his pontificate on March 19, 2013, in a homily in which he exhorted the Church to protect all that was created, nature and man.This custody and responsibility of guarding and caring for those who need it most is the engine that pushed, twelve years ago, to start a relief effort in the Villalba neighborhood, in Cartagena, under the name of Custodire (to guard in Italian).

A project that has been developed in the San José del Coto Dorda House of Exercises and Spirituality, which will now house the Nazareth Home.

"It is a neighborhood with many good people who need strong support in training and from the beginning we have hoped to break that chain by working with them." That is why Custodire supports the new project that will be developed in the Coto Dorda, a place that, during the last decade, has become the custodian of this Cartagena neighborhood, its families and its future. 

Source: Obispado de Cartagena