Created in 1996 on the initiative of a small group of people, association Niños de los Andes, association apolitical and non denominational, was given at the beginning of the only caritative objectives, gifts of clothing, shoes, objects of everyday usage, with the stripped children of Ecuador, (small country wedged between Colombia & Peru), and with the passing of years evolved to projects more structured like the installation of popular dining rooms for the small workers of the street of less than 12 years.