Get involved andhelpsupportchildren Dream!
Get involved and help children Dream!Every person should be able to achieve the dreams...
SER was born out of the need to help the less favored children in some areas of Latin America. Our mission is to teach and assure children that their circumstances do not determine the person that they can become.
Our after-school programs and workshops will give them the opportunity to expand their minds and develop critical thinking. We aim to awaken self-love and self-confidence by turning their natural gifts and talents into strengths to improve their development, to give them vision and hope for the future.
Our after-school programs and workshops will give them the opportunity to expand their minds and develop critical thinking. We aim to awaken self-love and self-confidence by turning their natural gifts and talents into strengths to improve their development, to give them vision and hope for the future.
SER verb "To be" in Spanish
Serving
children and their families
Serving
children and their families
Since every child needs good nutrition to thrive, SER provides healthy basics for children and their families, fueling their potential! Many needs are met for our participating families to create healthy, well-balanced food at home, including cooking utensils, hygiene products and basic education in nutrition.
Educating
children so they can soar!
Educating
children so they can soar!
Our unique and dynamic curriculum educates children after the school day is over and gives them a chance to explore culture, creativity and science. It introduces them to the English language, critical thinking methods, world cultures, music, art and practical application of scientific principals.
Restoring
children's dreams
Restoring
children's dreams
We facilitate, encourage and inspire children's futures! Our volunteer staff helps each child develop passions that will enhance and direct their careers. We are committed to connecting every participating child with a specialized high school or technical school, along with qualifying them for scholarships that will lead them to achieving their goals.
Serving
Serving children and their families. Since every child needs good nutrition to thrive, SER provides healthy basics for children and their families, fueling their potential! Many needs are met for our participating families to create healthy, well-balanced food at home, including cooking utensils, hygiene products and basic education in nutrition.
Educating
Educating children so they can soar! Our unique and dynamic curriculum educates children after the school day is over and gives them a chance to explore culture, creativity and science. It introduces them to the English language, critical thinking methods, world cultures, music, art and practical application of scientific principals.
Restoring
Restoring children's dreams. We facilitate, encourage and inspire children's futures! Our volunteer staff helps each child develop passions that will enhance and direct their careers. We are committed to connecting every participating child with a specialized high school or technical school, along with qualifying them for scholarships that will lead them to achieving their goals.
Mission Statement
SER’s primary mission is to teach and assure children that their circumstances do not determine the person that they can become.
SER offers resources underserved children in Latin America need to cultivate their natural talents for technology, music, art and higher learning.
SER offers resources underserved children in Latin America need to cultivate their natural talents for technology, music, art and higher learning.
We offer educational curriculum, tutoring, leadership training and materials to children in local schools, orphanages and neighborhood programs using an After-school Program model.
We create empowerment in children by teaching them critical thinking and by weaving social skill into the fabric of our training.
We expand children's horizons by exposing them to other cultures and world-views in order to make them global citizens. The children get an immersive experience with technology, giving them a competitive exposure to fields like videography, photography and online learning.
We partner with schools and health clinics in order to connect children and their families with health and nutrition education and resources.
Learning is hands-on, with activities such as chess, team sports, technology and educational games written into the curriculum.
Get Involved
Get involved and help children Dream!
We are changing the lives of children in order to change the world, one person at a time. We know that one person has the power to make a huge difference.
You can help us and be involved by:
Donating as many times as you want or on a monthly basis.
Volunteering your time to help with paperwork; make phone calls, write e-mails and respond & comment on our social media.
Assisting with planning and/or organizing fundraisers.
GETTING THE WORD OUT. Please let the rest of the world know about SER via word of mouth and social media. We believe that as a community we can make a deeper impact. Thank you for being a part of SER.
SER is a non-profit organization with the 501(c)3 status. As such, all contributions are tax-deductible as provided by law. You will be sent a receipt of your contribution for your records.
As always we are immensely grateful for your support and your partnership in our cause. If you have any questions please contact eliana@sermore.org
To donate to SER please click on the link below to take you to the donation site:
About Us
SER is a team of Dreamers who believe that every person should be able to achieve the dreams in their lives no matter the circumstances. Although we are at our beginning stage, we have a great community of supporters at home in the United States and in Latin America. Our first project is in Puebla, Mexico, and our ultimate goal is to expand to Central and South America and the Caribbean. We are aware that children deeply need extra support in their education, not only regarding academics, but also personal growth, hygiene, nutrition, and ethics. Especially in underprivileged communities we know that poverty plays the main role in the reason children do not live out their highest potential.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?"
Children who live in poverty seldom get asked this question. They are not encouraged to dream. They are not told that the sky is the limit for them.
Getting beyond their immediate surroundings seems impossible. Advanced degrees--even finishing high school--are pipe dreams. They are not encouraged to become physicists or marine biologists or accomplished writers, for example.
In dreaming, equality doesn’t exist. For some children, poverty has consumed their natural talents. Their caregivers are focused on trying to make ends meet, but impoverished children's wings are clipped at an early age.
Our goal at SER is to let these children's lives and dreams take flight! We believe your circumstances do not have to limit the person you become. With the space to dream and the necessary supports, we believe these children can become anything they want to be!
One of our many objectives is to develop the child's talents and allow them to discover opportunities for their future. We hope to stimulate their thinking and imagination by exposing them to career and entrepreneurial opportunities and various resources.
In cooperation with other organizations, such as schools and free health clinics, our follow-up plan includes family participation, thus expanding the benefits to the whole household.
The funds will come through grants, individual & business entities’ donations and fundraising.
Because we are at our beginning stage we are collecting clothes, shoes and school materials. However, we will utilize the local businesses in the children’s communities to stimulate their economy.
Team SER
Gloria SenhouseTreasurer
gloria@sermore.org
gloria@sermore.org
Gloria SenhouseTreasurer
gloria@sermore.org
gloria@sermore.org
Gloria Senhouse is currently the SOX Compliance Manager at an Investment Management firm in NYC. She has strong experience working in the accounting in the financial services industries. Prior to her current position, she worked for several firms within the financial services industry in NY including Barclays Investment Bank, JP Morgan Investment Bank and AIG. Gloria also worked for several years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in her home country, Venezuela.
Being an immigrant from Venezuela has shaped Gloria into a very passionate advocate for Human Rights defense, Democracy and humanitarian causes. She actively works as a volunteer to help the Venezuelan community in NY and Venezuelan refugees in Colombia.
Gloria received her Bachelor degree in Public Accountancy from the Catholic University of Táchira in Venezuela; she is a certified public accountant in Venezuela.
Gloria lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and her two sons. She loves traveling, dancing, listening to music and watching romcom movies in her free time.
Giovanni Camillieri Secretary
giovanni@sermore.org
giovanni@sermore.org
Giovanni Camillieri Secretary
giovanni@sermore.org
giovanni@sermore.org
Giovanni Camillieri was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He has pursued a career in sales for the last 24 years. Very early in his life, he started to become involved in charity work and serving the community. At age 11, he was already visiting the elderly at nursing homes and visiting the young children of different orphanages. Together with other people that were with him, they use to perform magic, sing songs and talked with the elderly and the children in order to encourage them.
Once in the United States, Giovanni continued to help and serve the community through an organization called Hope for Kids (later renamed “Hope World Wide”). Serving countless hours in different projects from helping bring children immunization awareness to lower income communities to serving food to the homeless.
This same passion is still driving Giovanni today to continue serving the community after 35 years. He still volunteers his time with Hope World Wide projects as well as many other non-for profit organizations that help and reach out to the local community and feed the homeless.
Giovanni is very proud to be able to be part of SER, since children have always had a special place in his heart. He loves to volunteer in his local church with the children’s ministry, and is looking forward to seeing the great impact that can be made for the children in Mexico, as well as their families through SER.
Derrek SchwartzVice President
derrek@sermore.org
derrek@sermore.org
Derrek SchwartzVice President
derrek@sermore.org
derrek@sermore.org
Derrek is currently focusing on human rights and sustainable development in emerging markets. He has also been partnering with public and private sector organizations to address humanitarian issues since 2017.
Prior to his work in international relations, Derrek spent the majority of his career in the financial sector, beginning in 2001. Working for global investment banks such as Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, Derrek concentrated on structuring custom-tailored investment solutions for C-level executives with businesses both domestic and abroad.
In addition to his professional career, Derrek has always had a passion for helping those in vulnerable situations. Whether volunteering with non-profits to feed the local homeless population or partnering with organizations to provide disaster relief abroad, he believes serving others is far more valuable than being served.
Derrek studied at The Colin Powell School at The City College of New York where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Public Policy, which he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Eliana V. Vera President & Founder
eliana@sermore.org
eliana@sermore.org
Eliana V. Vera President & Founder
eliana@sermore.org
eliana@sermore.org
Eliana V. Vera, from an early age, has been very aware of the needs of people around her. She grew up spending lots of time in Colombia, New York City, and Mexico, and she frequently saw children asking for money in the streets. Even though it was clear they were underprivileged, Eliana was moved by the joy she always found on the children’s faces as they played and laughed in the streets. As a youth seeing this firsthand, Eliana was so eager to help, she offered her meager allowance to those children in need.
While she went on to graduate from the City University of New York with a Bachelor Degree in I/O Psychology and a Minor in International Marketing, Eliana never lost her passion to serve. She eventually left a stable, reliable position with a communications multimedia corporation to start her own non-profit organization, SER.
This organization would embrace that joyful spark of children in poverty and teach them to believe they are worth more than their societal and economical status; they are valuable and capable of any dream they could imagine!
Eliana recently moved from New York City to Veracruz, Mexico to be closer to the communities SER serves.
Gloria SenhouseTreasurer
gloria@sermore.org
gloria@sermore.org
Gloria Senhouse is currently the SOX Compliance Manager at an Investment Management firm in NYC. She has strong experience working in the accounting in the financial services industries. Prior to her current position, she worked for several firms within the financial services industry in NY including Barclays Investment Bank, JP Morgan Investment Bank and AIG. Gloria also worked for several years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in her home country, Venezuela.
Being an immigrant from Venezuela has shaped Gloria into a very passionate advocate for Human Rights defense, Democracy and humanitarian causes. She actively works as a volunteer to help the Venezuelan community in NY and Venezuelan refugees in Colombia.
Gloria received her Bachelor degree in Public Accountancy from the Catholic University of Táchira in Venezuela; she is a certified public accountant in Venezuela.
Gloria lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and her two sons. She loves traveling, dancing, listening to music and watching romcom movies in her free time.
Giovanni Camillieri Secretary
giovanni@sermore.org
giovanni@sermore.org
Giovanni Camillieri was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He has pursued a career in sales for the last 24 years. Very early in his life, he started to become involved in charity work and serving the community. At age 11, he was already visiting the elderly at nursing homes and visiting the young children of different orphanages. Together with other people that were with him, they use to perform magic, sing songs and talked with the elderly and the children in order to encourage them.
Once in the United States, Giovanni continued to help and serve the community through an organization called Hope for Kids (later renamed “Hope World Wide”). Serving countless hours in different projects from helping bring children immunization awareness to lower income communities to serving food to the homeless.
This same passion is still driving Giovanni today to continue serving the community after 35 years. He still volunteers his time with Hope World Wide projects as well as many other non-for profit organizations that help and reach out to the local community and feed the homeless.
Giovanni is very proud to be able to be part of SER, since children have always had a special place in his heart. He loves to volunteer in his local church with the children’s ministry, and is looking forward to seeing the great impact that can be made for the children in Mexico, as well as their families through SER.
Derrek SchwartzVice President
derrek@sermore.org
derrek@sermore.org
Derrek is currently focusing on human rights and sustainable development in emerging markets. He has also been partnering with public and private sector organizations to address humanitarian issues since 2017.
Prior to his work in international relations, Derrek spent the majority of his career in the financial sector, beginning in 2001. Working for global investment banks such as Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, Derrek concentrated on structuring custom-tailored investment solutions for C-level executives with businesses both domestic and abroad.
In addition to his professional career, Derrek has always had a passion for helping those in vulnerable situations. Whether volunteering with non-profits to feed the local homeless population or partnering with organizations to provide disaster relief abroad, he believes serving others is far more valuable than being served.
Derrek studied at The Colin Powell School at The City College of New York where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Public Policy, which he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Eliana V. Vera President & Founder
eliana@sermore.org
eliana@sermore.org
Eliana V. Vera, from an early age, has been very aware of the needs of people around her. She grew up spending lots of time in Colombia, New York City, and Mexico, and she frequently saw children asking for money in the streets. Even though it was clear they were underprivileged, Eliana was moved by the joy she always found on the children’s faces as they played and laughed in the streets. As a youth seeing this firsthand, Eliana was so eager to help, she offered her meager allowance to those children in need.
While she went on to graduate from the City University of New York with a Bachelor Degree in I/O Psychology and a Minor in International Marketing, Eliana never lost her passion to serve. She eventually left a stable, reliable position with a communications multimedia corporation to start her own non-profit organization, SER.
This organization would embrace that joyful spark of children in poverty and teach them to believe they are worth more than their societal and economical status; they are valuable and capable of any dream they could imagine!
Eliana recently moved from New York City to Puebla, Mexico to be closer to the communities SER serves.