Our Mission

The Foundation’s mission is to improve the lives of children and youth in Latin America through fostering healthy and supportable living.

Specifically, the goal is to provide marginalized and exploited young girls with basic necessities such as a dependable supply of food, safe housing and necessary resources to enhance quality of living.

Purposes of the Society:

• To provide marginalized and exploited young girls with basic necessities such as a dependable supply of food, safe housing and necessary resources to enhance quality of living.

• To provide the resources to educate family members of marginalized and exploited young girls to enable a healthier home life.

• To relieve poverty by providing basic amenities, including food, clothing, medical supplies, shelter and other basic necessities to orphans in Latin America and other developing countries.

• To advance education by building and improving infrastructure including schools and playgrounds and to provide such supplies as books, paper and uniforms to schools in Latin America and other developing countries.

• To advance education by providing scholarships to poor students in Latin America and other developing countries.

• To educate poor children and orphans in Latin America and other developing countries regarding photography.

About PURA VIDA FOUNDATION

In 2005, Nathan Beninger established the Pura Vida Foundation (meaning Pure Life in Spanish) which is a registered charity in Canada that focuses on improving the lives of children and youth in Latin America.

The foundation hopes to attain this goal through varied projects. The Pura Vida Foundation opened its first Shelter in January 2009 on a rental basis, which reaches out to marginalized and exploited young girls of Cusco, Peru and surrounding areas. We are working to raise $110,000 to permanently establish the shelter. In addition, Pura Vida strives to provide basic necessities throughout Cusco.