Give school & love to abandoned girls in Mexico

Hello everyone ,

How are you? It’s been a while since we last spoke! Hope everything is going well for you!

Today we want to discuss with you about fire. Fire is an agent of natural relationship between microcosm and macrocosm. It’s a dynamic element because it generates transformations. Particularly, fire can purify all things, bringing them to a higher level of purity. 

And Belen seems to understand that; do you remember her? She‘s our little girl whom was adopted by an Italian couple. She has just arrived in Italy with her adoptive parents and has started a new school with new friends and consequently new challenges. 

Apparently in the very first moments she was scared about her new life but then … then she was on a trip with her new classmates and after a magical reunion around a bonfire she went back home and told her parents she was the most fortunate girl in the world because she found them: mom and father. 

Something happened during that circle which made a big transformation in Belen’s heart. She understood that nobody was asking her to forget her origins, but just to include her present in her soul in order to create an explosive and warm future full of hope and happiness. 

Therefore we also started thinking about how this big change impacted our home and our little girls; because as you know, dear donor, this has been our first adoption experience. We still feel sad and a bit nostalgic because we deeply miss Belen, but we are really happy to think that our girls may have the possibility to find a family forever, a family made of mum and dad. 

We know we are (us and you) the family of these children, but to have the possibility of being desired by a beautiful family was a dream for Belen and probably the same could happen to the others. 

We are considering the opportunity of being like a “family-bridge” for all the Mexican children who will leave a foot step in our home in order to help them find their future in Mexico or in another country of the world . As you can imagine, dear donor, this would be a big change for our organization because it would imply transforming Puerta Abierta in a big agent of transformation connecting lives, helping children to reconnect to themselves as we always did and then to connect them with their new adoptive family. What a big impact that would be for society!! 

We are really grateful for the help you gave us; if all these changes are possible it is because you brought us a big part of what we need to allow children to attend school and psychological therapy, changing their destiny. Please, we still need you to help our Mexican children to transform their lives: “to bring them to a higher level of purity”, just like fire does…

We will keep you up to date 

See you in the next report

With love 

Puerta Abierta IAP

Links:

• Web page

THE MAGIC WAND

“If you had a magic wand what would you do Belen?”

“Well…I would like lots of pencils and a family forever, a family to live happy and loved for the rest of my life.”

Wishes come true and Belen found her mom and daddy , they are Italian and they have been waiting for their little girl for five years.

Hello dear donor, 

How are you? I have great news: one of our  girls has been adopted, her name is Belen and this Christmas she asked for a family. Just a few weeks later we received the notice that our social services had found an overseas family for Belen.

Actually we were shocked, as you know here in Puerta Abierta WE ARE the family of our little girls, and besides it never happens that someone wants to adopt a girl who is nine years old. Usually they want little babies, which we understand and respect, therefore our heart was full of joy when they gave us this wonderful news.

“To adopt “ means “to desire”, to adopt means to find whom you were looking for: your soulmate.

And that’s what happened to Belen, this is her happy ending story. This was Belen’s fairy-tale.

Everything sounds perfect until here right? Yes, I agree with you; but the point is that thanks to you, thanks to your help and kindness Belen, just like the other girls living in Puerta Abierta, is not leaving an orphanage without love and care, but she’s going away from a warm little house full of love and warm feelings. A little house called Puerta Abierta, where our children live like sisters and where they learn to protect each other and to visualize their life together. And then one day Belen’s desire comes true. So she’s happy and their parents too, and so are we but.. please take a breath and close your eyes. IMAGINE YOU ARE ONE OF OUR GIRLS. Your name is Ximena and you are ten years old. You have been living in Puerta Abierta for the last two years and Belen is your best friend. You are living with us because your adoptive mother didn’t want you anymore and “returned you” like a box to the social services. This is your story, at the end of the day you’re happy because in Puerta Abierta you have found love and Belen. But now she’s going away, now she’s been adopted, now she’s going to live in Italy and she’s happy… so you have to smile to her and pretend to be excited about her new life. But your heart is broken, once again. Please dear donor, open your eyes.

How do you feel? Because this is a real story, the real story of Belen and Ximena. Now we have to deal with the sadness of Xime (like we use to call her) and try to find a light in her in order to see her calm and in peace.

We did a good-bye party four days ago to say good-bye to Belen; we thought a lot about how to organize it and then we decided to start finding that light that Xime lost because of Belen’s adoption. So we lit a lot of candles, and we all said something to Belen; everyone just said a word or just smiled. Then we made an energy circle to support Belen and to support us: we desire you all the best Belen but we will miss you, we will miss you a lot little princess.

Dear donor, like you may imagine soon a new girl will start living with us (of course we will tell you everything about her in the next report) and your support will be really important like always in order for her to have the same opportunities you gave, and are giving, to the other children of Puerta Abierta.

Now, to be honest, we all need to learn to live without our Belen, but we are happy and proud of her; we are all looking forward to eating her first home-made Italian pasta!!

With love

CIAO

Puerta Abierta IAP

Links:

• Web Page

Hey there,

How are you? Today I would like to play a game with you! Are you ready?

So …let’s start! As you know, today is Giving Tuesday. The day to give. However, I’m not here only to ask for money. I don’t want, dear donor, just to tell you what to do and why to do it. I really want to play a game: we want us to IMAGINE together. Do you want to work with me for a better world? If you are reading these few lines, I’m sure it is so.

Well, here in Puerta Abierta we started to dream about 13 years ago and ever since we have never stopped. Since then, we have loved many little Mexican girls; some of them have already grown into women, wonderful women whom thanks to you are reaching their dreams. Others are growing up with difficulty and pain but are still believing that things can change for better.

Personally I think Giving Tuesday is a day in which people should imagine all together how to find a way to help someone else. Because if all the world acted like a chain, imagining to being close to every other person living on the earth probably everything would be easier.

Please, dear donor, start playing with me: IMAGINE!!!!

Imagine: what would happen if today you tried to smile to the stranger crossing the street?

What would happen if you shared your meal with the homeless living on the corner of your house? What would happen if you tried to smile to the difficulties instead of being angry all day long?

What would happen if you thought that YOU can REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Dear donor, positive thinking is the element that, together with your help, has helped us to keep on going with this life project called Puerta Abierta IAP; therefore today I just want you to imagine the sun, the light, love and energy. I just want you to live in a different way today.

Here in Puerta Abierta we want to send you our blessings and our positive energy; we would like to know you’re having a wonderful day. We decided to spend this giving Tuesday trying to give you back all that you have given us in the past. So … we would like to ask you: HOW DO YOU FEEL? HOW IS YOUR LIFE?

If we just could meet it would be easier, because we would offer you a piece of chocolate cake and  a hot coffee, and then we would invite you to sit on our little sofa and we would listen to you, to your words and your silences. But please IMAGINE being here with us (please google chocolate abuelita, it is the most famous and yummy here in Mexico.. smells like cinnamon.. we’re cooking this chocolate for you!)

Close your eyes dear donor, you’re here with us. Close your eyes dear donor, and then if you have time to do it, check out our photos on global giving: we’re sure we will steal you a smile !!!

We are just twelve lovely girls living in a children´s home and dreaming of building our life out of education and love. We just want to give voice to those people – you donors – who every day help us to fly in the adventure of life. That’s way this time we want to make a challenge and see if we can reach you in some way: please write us a letter, just saying hello or even use us as your secret diary. We will be really pleased and delighted to read about you and to answer you ..You can tell us anything you want, we will take care of your feelings and we will try to make you smile. If you want us to help you, and if you want to keep in touch with us please write through our web page

www.puerta-abierta.org 

We will never share your feelings and your thoughts, we will just try to GIVE YOU BACK all that you have done for us day by day.

That’s all for now, go out and LIVE. We will be waiting for your emails.

With all our love

Puerta Abierta IAP 

Links:

• Childrens home

Hi,

We are sure by now you know the triplets at our children’s home! You have been generous with them and we know you would like to get to know them better.

María, Angeles and Lupis are almost 17, María and Angeles are identical twins and Lupis is physically very different. This year we had to move them to a new High School as María and Angeles need to be independent. They are so close that sometimes it seems as one can't survive without the other. They have not found their own identity and their therapist suggested that we enrolled them in different high schools. Above that, Puerta Abierta has the policy of giving them the opportunity to attend a High School that will assure them also a technical degree, this is possible in México and will give them new tools to become self-sufficient and independent.

It’s a challenge as they loved their old school, specially María, who strongly opposed to the idea last year. After a lot of thought and talks with the 3 of them they have come to the conclusion that this is a new opportunity for them!
Lupis choose gastronomy as her technical degree, Angeles IT and María administration. It gave them a apportunity  to think about their future and to choose what they think they will like to do as a university degree later on.
It's now been 2 weeks since they started school and I can tell you that Lupis and Angeles are enjoining this new experience. María as teenager won´t admit that she is happy but we can see and hear that she is very happy. It always surprises us how easily children adapt and how resilient they are.

Your generous donation over this years has helped us to give them the possibilty to reach High School and have the knowledge to attend this new school. You are giving a huge opportunity not only  with an education of good quality but a loving family, so thanks to you donor for being part of the education of our girls. Its been amazing to be so close to them and be part of their development with the challenges it has, they have a very special energy among the 3 and they are building their future now. 

Links:

• Organization web page

EMOTIONAL counts

Another year of school is almost over. Many things have happened and our little girls have grown up.  So I’m here to let you know what we have done thanks to you. Are you ready? Sit down, relax and open your heart.

Magui (the eldest) is studying at college with very good grades (wow! she had an average of 9 !) . Karla, the one who is studying gastronomy also had an average of 9 and has already cooked for us very good meals! The other little girls have passed their exams so they can pass to the next year. We are very proud of them, and of you. You make this possible, our girls are very thankful because thanks to you they are changing their life. Through knowledge they are changing their destiny. They are making their dreams come true as as we have been able to pay for their school fees, school supplies and tutorial support.

Knowledge makes your mind different, knowledge makes yourself more connected with your emotions or, like we say, helps to give voice to your emotions. You learn to tell others how  you feel and this is really important in the path of becoming a better human being. School is also this: emotional intelligence. So once again we have to thank you. Because in these three months our little girls have experienced a very strong separation. One of our staf had to move to another country, and they felt lost and sad. As you can imagine, because of their history, our little girls don’t live separations in a very good way. Obviously, we were very worried about their reactions. Obviously, they felt terrible, but the good news is they found the way to express how they felt. We are very surprised because instead of closing their hearts (like they usually did in order to protect themselves) they wrote a lot of letters to this person. They wrote and wrote, a river of letters. They spoke about being angry because of the separation, then they went through sadness and now they are experiencing the other part of the history: having a long distance friend to whom telling everything, knowing that even though of the distance this person will allways be ther for them!

Maybe you can’t imagine how important your help is, but please do believe me. You are giving to these girls the opportunity to have an education in a traditional way and in an emotional way; together we are creating functional girls. This means young people able to think and feel. Young people able to build their future and to believe in it. Together we are working to make a world’s heart beating in unison. Thank you, dear Donor. Not only for believing in our children but also for believing in changing their lives by giving them a part of your emotional intelligence.

We still need you. But I’m sure you know: change needs time and you are the most patient person I know.

With all our love,

Puerta Abierta I.A

Links:

• Home page