Missions
You are in Acuña Every Week
School begins! YOU can sponsor a child by donating $140 and marking your check "Education". Every penny will be spent to purchase the school supplies and uniform needed for a child to attend school. The parents you help will 'earn' the money by working for 40-hours at the school. They will help with painting, plumbing and building repairs.
This is a win-win situation. Every penny of your donation is used for a child that you sponsor. Education is the silver bullet to crush poverty and help the children to create a better Mexico. These people are staying in Mexico and respecting our laws. Please, help these families to help themselves.
Your donations reach the people in need and we make it clear that the unconditional love comes from thousands across the United States. We remain a 100% volunteer organization and your donations are used to help the people to help themselves.
These people work at any job. They are staying in Mexico, obeying the law, and working hard to give their children an education. Often, this means living in a card-board shack or one room house.
Although the cost of living is similar to Houston, the average take-home pay that we see is $65 per week. We shop in Houston, San Antonio and in the colonias of Acuña. see little difference in the cost of rent, groceries, electricity, water,and school supplies in each of these places. Our family cannot thrive on $65 a week.
These people live in a caste-system and are at the bottom rung. When a baby is born with deformities the families are told that nothing can be done. We've encountered many children with severe medical needs that can be resolved for a few thousand dollars. Sometimes, the difference between life changing medical care is only the price of a bus ticket to a large city hospital where the health insurance would pay for treatment. However, they can't afford the round trip bus fare and the loss of a few days wages. So children remain in wheel-chairs, children die without cancer treatment and children remain without real hope.
You provide the bus tickets and replace the lost wages. You also provide the cost of medical care for those without insurance. We provide food, clothing, shelter, medicine, surgery, cancer treatment, free meals at school, and help with education. You make it possible for us to work with individual family needs so that these people can help themselves. You are Paper Houses Across the Border.