Hogar de Cristo, Guayaquil

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| purpose = Homebuilding with the poor along with other services

| headquarters = Mount Sinai, Guayaquil, Ecuador

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| leader_title = Director

| leader_name = Eduardo Vega, S.J.

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| name = Hogar de Cristo, Ecuador

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| established = {{Start date and age| 1971}}

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Hogar de Cristo, Guayaquil, "Home of Christ" – HC, was founded by the Jesuits in 1971 in response to a critical shortage of housing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and in accord with the preferential option for the poor which spread in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council of Bishops in the 1960s.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

While HC continues to prefabricate homes,{{Citation|title=Hogar de Cristo busca recaudar más de USD 20 millones para donar casas|url=http://www.elcomercio.com/actualidad/hogardecristo-terremoto-ecuador-casas-damnificados.html|accessdate=2017-04-01}} its activities have extended to supplying community facilities, education and worker training, health care, microcredit, and special services for abused women and children.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cpalsocial.org/centro.html?centro_id=102|title=Corporación Viviendas del Hogar de Cristo|work=cpalsocial.org|access-date=2017-04-01|language=es-CO|archive-date=2017-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406022210/http://www.cpalsocial.org/centro.html?centro_id=102|url-status=dead}}