Covenant House was founded in 1972 in New York City to work with and on behalf of street children and today consists of a network of 21 sites throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America that served more than 50,000 homeless, abandoned, abused, trafficked and exploited children last year.  This Casa Alianza website is dedicated to our Covenant House programs that operate in four countries in Latin America:  Casa Alianza Mexico, Casa Alianza Honduras, Casa Alianza Nicaragua and La Alianza Guatemala.

Over our 30 year history in Latin America, in each country, our Casas have become highly respected organizations providing a portfolio of multi-disciplinary services to help exploited and trafficked children and adolescents reclaim their lives from homelessness, abuse, traffickers, and violence. Our programs are unique in that they offer an open door to children and teens 24 hours a day–7 days a week–365 days a year and our comprehensive treatment methodology has become a model for governments and other child service organizations.

Our Latin America National Directors are internationally recognized experts in children’s human rights and together are a strong collective voice and force in civil society, leading advocacy efforts to pass critical legislation on human trafficking and to call governments to their responsibility to design and enforce policies that protect children and punish traffickers.  Our staff in each country live our mission of offering every child absolute respect and unconditional love under exceedingly difficult circumstances including crushing poverty, rampant political and economic instability, and a stunning increase in levels of crime and violence that affect youth every day.

At Casa Alianza we have the extraordinary privilege of serving the most forgotten, abandoned, and abused children in the region. And, inspired by our mission to offer "absolute respect and unconditional love" we strive to offer the very best we can–every day–every minute–to every child.

In recognition of our work, Casa Alianza received the Olaf Palme Prize in 1996, the Hilton Humanitarian Prize in 2000, the Reina Sofia Award in 2007, and the honor of having our Casa Alianza Honduras National Director, Jose Manual Capellin, named as a US Department of State Anti-Trafficking Hero in 2008. Click Awards at the bottom of the page for more information.