Niños de Maria is a non-profit Catholic Foundation that welcomes the most vulnerable children in Ecuador.

They are children who have or have had a profile of school failure in public education.  The reasons that lead to failure in education are:

1. They come from families with serious problems of alcohol, drugs, domestic violence, congenital disorders, a parent in prison or conflictive separations.
2. Children with poor learning processes or who have dropped out of education for some years.