Promoting, safeguarding, and restoring the fundamental rights of human communities susceptible of being undermined.

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Our Vision will always be to work together with all social agents to prevent all forms of violation, and achieve the establishment of styles of positive relationships, based on good treatment and respect for fundamental human rights.

Our Vision will always be to work together with all social agents to prevent all forms of violation, and achieve the establishment of styles of positive relationships, based on good treatment and respect for fundamental human rights.

Our Mission is to promote, prevent, restore and repair the rights of boys, girls, teenagers, families or caregivers, groups and communities.

Our Mission is to promote, prevent, restore and repair the rights of boys, girls, teenagers, families or caregivers, groups and communities.

Our History


NGO Caelis is established under the conviction that all human beings, regardless of their socio-material or socio-cultural condition, have the right to a full life free of violence. The Caelis team today has expanded to Tarija, Bolivia, working jointly with professionals from this territory.

Actions Done


  • Research and generation of strategies for student permanence. Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.
  • Conversation, “The role of women, family and work in times of pandemic,” held with professional women from the psychosocial area of ​​the Illustrious Municipality of San Antonio, Chile.
  • Support for indigenous Mayan women in Guatemala, in alliance with ONG LUCA, Swedish Association for Local Development in Central America.
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Fields of Action

Cooperation and commitment in the promotion, prevention and recovery of people and communities, intending the processes of establishing the fundamental rights of women, children, adolescents, older adults and other communities of people susceptible to violations, in order to achieve a worthy life.

Likewise, NGO Caelis offers innovative solutions adapted to the needs of public or private institutions to integrate inclusion and diversity into their operations.

Publicize, design and implement programs aimed at improving the mental and emotional well-being of individuals and communities.

Develop and install programs aimed at reducing psychosocial and psychoemotional risk factors, but also at stopping their progression and mitigating their consequences once established.

Carry out intervention plans for individuals or communities to optimize their psycho-emotional, social or other functioning, reducing the damage or violation of which they were victims.

Research on the various topics in which NGO Caelis carries out its action is a task that it carries out, since its members have developed relevant training and academic experience.

Our Team


Johanna Helles

Social worker, Social Science and Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Violence and crime prevention, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Management and coordination of social projects on gender equality, sexual rights, combating poverty, security and citizen participation in Sweden, Europe, South and Central America.
Founder of LUCA (Swedish Local Development Association in Central America)

María Patricia Tapia

Social Worker, University of Valparaíso, Chile.
MG. In Psychosociolegal Interventions. Diploma in Child Sexual Abuse.
Training in gender and public administration.
Experience in evaluation and intervention in criminal matters with youth and adults.

Peky Rubín De Celis

Psychologist UAJMS Tarija Bolivia. Specialized in conflict resolution UCB Tarija Bolivia.
Psychoanalytic Clinic Buenos Aires Argentina Foundation.
Popular educator Experience in processes of prevention and care of gender violence against women and children.
Training in local management, gender, leadership and Human Rights, production of communication content.

Marlene Calvete

UNAB Psychologist, Master in Community Mental Health, U of Barcelona, Spain.
Specialization in Conflict Resolution, U of Chile. Researcher on Social Representations regarding Child Sexual Abuse. PUCV, Chile.
Specialization in Clinical Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile.
Professor Catholic University of Valparaíso and Playa Ancha University Valparaíso, Chile.

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