Ruta6 is an NGO which is registered in the Spanish
Agency of International Development Cooperation. Our
aim is to support human development in areas of
extreme deprivation and our philosophy is based on
the following principles :
We regard
Education to be the most effective tool to transform
the world; our international action is therefore
centered on promoting access to quality education
for young orphans or abandoned children and
adolescents in Nepal, through a program of study
grants.
Although our NGO was
formally constituted in 2012, members of Ruta6 have
been working actively since 2008.
This project was
initiated by a group of Secondary School students
from Cantabria; since then it has expanded steadily,
thanks to the support of an increasing number of
individuals and groups.
What our work involves:
We offer grants to young
children and adolescents who are lacking in basic
resources. Our help covers school fees and
maintenance (food and lodging); these full grants
are received until the young person has finished
their training.
WE also collaborate with the
following Spanish NGO’s who are working in Nepal :
Dream Nepal: we pay for the education of the
children lodged in Dream Nepal’s Kathmandu houses;
these children are taken out of the prisons where
their parents are serving sentences.
Amics de Nepal: we collaborate with Amics de Nepal
by financing the educational needs of the young
people they work with, when they are not able to
cover the costs. Our present challenge is the
construction of a rural school and farm which we aim
to build in a deprived area where there is a strong
need for schooling and in order to offer better
quality of life to the families living in the are.
We also plan to build a hostel so that we can lodge
the orphan children, receiving a Ruta6 grant. This
is a joint project with Arquitectos sin Fronteras (
from Navarra office )
We are based in Cabezón de la Sal (Cantabria) in
what people call “the house of dreams”. This space
that has been temporarily donated to Ruta6 by the
owners of the house and has been converted into a
second-hand shop that attends to the needs of local
inhabitants.
On the one hand people from Social Services have a
place to come to where they can find their basic
material needs free of charge, like clothes,
footwear, toys, books etc.
On the other hand, more and
more families are opting for more responsible ways
of consuming and they choose our shop because they
can buy second-hand articles in exchange for a
symbolic donation. They are pleased to be reusing
objects, while looking after the environment and
contributing towards giving quality education to
young people who have no resources.
We divulge our work
throughout Cantabria and promote awareness of what
we do in schools and local businesses.
As we have already said, the
philosophy of Ruta6 is based on the right for
children in all parts of the world to have an
Education.
Ruta6 believes it is important for this side of the
planet to know about the realities experienced by
people who live thousands of kilometres away. We
spend a lot of time in schools and colleges who
invite us to visit them and in this way we bring
Spain and Nepal closer to each other, through the
stories of the true protagonists of our work: the
scholarship-holders of Ruta6. .