Centro de Información y Educación para la Prevención del Abuso de Drogas (CEDRO) (Spanish for: information- and education-centre for prevention of drug abuse

Drug abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...

) is a private non-profit institution in Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

 which was established by some Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vians in 1986. CEDRO focuses on working with street children, because these are in danger of drug abuse. For this purpose CEDRO has its own shelter for children in Lima.

Further objectives and working methods are:

• To educate the population about drug abuse and its consequences (in the form of attendance at masses, lectures and also workshops).

• Especially to protect endangered groups from drugs, e.g. street children by offering recreational activities such as music-courses, drawing-courses, sporting events or language-courses.

Since 2002 Austrian

Austrians

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 peace workers from the Austrian Association for Service Abroad have been working at CEDRO.

External links

• http://www.cedro.org.pe
• http://www.sozialdienst.at
• http://www.auslandsdienst.at