Support a person living in an impoverished community in Mexico to start a microenterprise. Participants will be empowered through life skills and business training to improve their lives.
Provide early education, breakfast, child care and psychological services for 455 disadvantaged preschoolers in the Mexico City Metro Area whose working parents cannot afford these services otherwise.
Help indigenous women in Mexico earn a sustainable source of income by improving and expanding their microenterprises. The women will receive training to market and sell their products nationally.
This project will train volunteers to test water for bacterial contamination. We will also supply 1000 families in Latin America with Water Pasteurization Indicators (WAPI's) and help them build safe cooking stoves.
The aim of the program is to encourage community members of Punta Allen, situated within the UNESCO Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, to participate in setting up and running a recycling centre, so it becomes an example to the rest of the region.
Countries:
Mexico
Themes:
Children,
Education,
Health
Matamoros Children's Home works to provide a family to orphans and neglected and abused children. Knowing the importance of establishing the foundations of a child's personality in early childhood, the Home provides a stable and predictable environment in which healthy relationships among the children and staff are developed. These 200+ children are helped physically and mentally by transforming their living through God's unconditional love.
Abandoned and abused girls have the right to a family and should be protected. Every child deserves a loving family and education.
Puerta Abierta is giving the tools to the girls so they can achieve their life project to become responsible, self-sufficient and independent adults.
They will build healthy families and will not permit the abuse they suffered as they have learned to respect and love and won't repeat the pattern that hurt them. Being well educated and loved will change them forever
Amigos de Sian Ka’an was founded in June of 1986 by 14 residents of Cancún, their purpose being to promote the preservation of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve (RBSK) and its surrounding areas.
Countries:
Mexico
Themes:
Children,
Education,
Human Rights
Arquetopia proactively reduces violence and crime in blighted and low-income neighborhoods by training youths to transform them into open-air galleries and positively restore their own communities.
Countries:
Mexico
Themes:
Children,
Women and Girls
For 9 years Casa Hogar Hijos de la Luna, Oaxaca, MX, has given a safe home to children of single mothers who work at night. Many are sex workers. Now Casa Hogar finds themselves with 53 children in a 2 bedroom space. This project is raising funds so that Casa Hogar may purchase the adjoining land to build a new building so they may continue to serve these kids. This cause is urgent. Without more space the older kids must return to homes - often brothels where they have been abused before.