Help These Girls Have Better Living Conditions

Peaceful Summer

Summer is a difficult time in our home, since the weather in Mexicali is extremely hot, we try to keep the girls busy, for that we had several activities with them, movie days and cooking classes we also took them on a field trip!

Our Girls are starting to get ready for the next school year.

During this quarter we repaired 3 small bathrooms, we had to make improvements to our electric system and get rid of old ceiling fans.

We had a very peaceful and productive summer.

We thank you again for your support and hope the best for you and your families.

THANK YOU!!!!

FIRST 2023 REPORT

We hope that your New Year started as Good as ours! After a long wait and a long period of savings we finally were able to buy our new VAN!!!!

 To celebrate we took our girls on a field trip to a place called Villa Navidena, they had a great time and were able to share some time and have fun together.

Our girls continue with their academic activities of grammer, mid and high school as always. Those that are not suitable to be in a regular academic schedule are in the regularization program and hopefully they will be able to join their respective grades in some time.

In March we replaced 14 computers and fixed the computer room ceiling, we are very exited about this since the ones we had were really old and the girls were not able to work properly on them.

We have great plans for this year, we have worked very hard to improve our facilities and offer our girls a better way of living, we are in the process of being able to receive more girls and include them in our programs in order to reach more families.

Without your help this couldn’t be done. We are very grateful for your support and hope to continue counting on it.

Merry Christmas from El Buen Pastor!

This quarter has been a busy one, we have new girls and besides our regular school activities, we had a lot of fun activities which helps the integration process.

We had Yoga Classes, Computer Classes, Halloween Party, A trip to the movies, Birthday Celebrations, Christmas cooking classes.

We carry out the remodeling of the Psycology room and the quarterly visit of Dr. Patricia Hernandez!

At Escuela Hogar el Buen Pastor we are very grateful for your patronage. All this couldn’t happen without your support, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2023!!!!

Thank you

Summer in our Home.

 Summer is the time to carry out the Planning for the 2022 - 2023 Academic Year. This involves finding teachers and the source to finance our plans. Within the new courses that we are planning to have in addition to the regular academic courses of elementary, middle, and high school, we are going to offer the girls courses of:

 - English and French languages.

- Workshops in beauty, fashion design, entrepreneurs, and computer science.

- Workshop on self-knowledge, affectivity, identity, and sexuality.

- Music and writing.

One of our goals is that the girls develop their talents, sometimes this can provide them additional career opportunities.

 Summer in Mexicali is a very difficult time because of our weather, which reaches temperatures of up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit, this does not allow the girls to have outside activities, so we must be creative and keep the girls busy, among the inside activities we had during the summer was a baking cooking course. The girls learned a lot and enjoyed it very much.

 Another summer course was music.

We also accomplish finishing the remodeling of the pool area,with a generous donation of artificial grass for the floor and walls, so the area is very beautiful. The girls use and enjoy this area a lot in this hot weather.

We thank you again for supporting our Home and making possible this beautiful project!!!

BACK TO SCHOOL

We are very excited with “back to school” after the pandemic!

As of today, we have: 2 girls in grammar school, 11 girls studding high school (in house), 5 of which graduated this term. 1 is attending an outside high school, 13 of our girls besides their regular academic grade are also studying to be an Administration assistant, 2 are preparing to take their college admissions exam for the Baja California University.

Al dia de hoy tenemos 2 niñas en primaria, 11 en Secundaria y Preparatoria, 5 de las cuales se han graduado en Enero de Preparatoria, 13 de nuestras niñas ademas de cursar sus estudios regulares estan siendo capacitadas como asistentes administrativos y 2 de nuestras jovenes se estan preparando para tomar el examen de admision de la UABC.

 AROUND THE WORLD IN TWO WHEELS

Alex Gonzalez author of “the world in two wheels”, from Mexicali who went around the world in a bicycle, was in our school and gave a motivational conference to the girls.

Alex Gonzalez, originario de Mexicali, quien recorrio el mundo en bicicleta, y es autor de "el mundo en dos ruedas", vino a nuestra escuela a dar a las niñas una platica motivacional.

 POOL REPAIR

Our pool had a leak and we had to repair it. This is one of our girls' favorite recreational activities considering that Mexicali is one of the hottest places in the world.

La alberca de la escuela tenia una fuga de agua y se reparo. Esta es una de las actividades recreativas favoritas de las niñas tomando en cuenta que Mexicali es uno de los lugares mas calientes del mundo.

 NEW MATTRESSES

The mattresses in our home were in very poor condition, so we decided to use some of the money raised in the campaign to replace the old mattresses and make sure the girls get a good night's rest.

Los colchones de la casa hogar estaban ya en muy malas condiciones por lo que decidimos utilizar parte del dinero de la campaña para reemplazarlos y asi asegurarnos de que las niñas tengan un buen descanso.

 BEACH TRIP

The girls were invited to spend a day at the beach by one of our benefactors, thank you very much Claudia!!!! They had so much fun!

Una de nuestras benefactoras invito a las niñas a pasar un dia en la playa, muchas gracias Claudia!!! Se divirtieron muchismo!

DOCTOR'S VISIT

Once again, Dr. Hernandez came to Mexicali from Los Angeles with an enthusiastic group of collegues to follow up with our girl's preventive routine.

Una vez mas la Dra. Hernandez vino a Mexicali con un grupo de entusiastas colegas para dar seguimiento a las rutinas de prevencion que estan enseñando a las niñas.

 Thanks to your support we have been doing great things since the campaign started!!!

Gracias por su apoyo hemos podido lograr grandes cosas desde el inicio de la campaña!!!