orphanages in SD

[vouvoune]

I would like to spend some afternoons playing with the children or helping in an orphanage in sd..anyone has an address for me please? the closest to the zona colonial the better! thanks,v

[fightingirish]

There's a place called something like "Los Canillitas" -- an orphanage and school and summer camp for shoe-shine boys and the like. I voluntered there briefly last summer. Great kids and they could use the help. The program is attached to a church on Manuela Diez btwn Yolanda Guzman and Albert Thomas in the Mejoramiento Social neighborhood. From the Zona you could travel straight up la Duarte, turn right on 27 de Febrero, and then turn left on Yolanda Guzman. Maybe 20 minute walk... but through lots of crowds and lots of poverty, so be safe.

If you go, you'll find the kids are a delight!