Commencing in the year 1996, the Rehabilitation Institute of Puebla Civil Association (IPODERAC) has dedicated itself to providing a home and an instruction for kids who have been left in the roads of Mexico. Using an educational model on the basis of the idea of personal growth through honourable work, IPODERAC has successfully combined its desire to be fiscally self-sufficient with its goal of teaching educational values, duty and discipline to the children in its care, so empowering them to create a feeling of belonging and some useful abilities for life.
This case investigates the long development of IPODERAC's educational model and also the origin, as the organization face a constant hunt for creation endeavors that may empower it to generate income. IPODERAC also faces the ongoing challenge of keeping its business units without deviating from its institutional assignment after fulfilling this aim. By April 2009, IPODERAC had all but got self-sufficiency; nonetheless, given the national monetary crisis as well as the emergence of the influenza A1H1 outbreak, IPODERAC's main source of income (i.e., the sale of gourmet cheeses) had suddenly diminished. The stability of the institution changed, and as a result new proposals for diversification were needed to strengthen IPODERAC's financial sustainability and to avoid similar pitfalls later on.
PUBLICATION DATE: July 24, 2012 PRODUCT #: W12064-HCB-ENG
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