Dear friends of the Oaxaca Education Fund!
Thank you for your generous donations at our superfun Walk in May, as well as the collections at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Nativity Parishes in San Diego, and the University of San Diego, and for buying the crafts and other items we sell to raise funds for the children and young people of the 5 villages in Oaxaca! We have enough now to buy the supplies and will be raising more throughout the year for the high school fees for 140 and the partial scholarships for 15 university students.
We have some very sad news too. Our dear friend Terri Trujillo, who was leader of Migrant Outreach at Our Lady of Mount Carmel for many years, passed away suddenly on June 21. We and the people in the villages who knew and loved her will miss her loving and concerned presence and quiet generosity. Safe journey to the everlasting home, Terri! You are much loved by those you leave behind.
Annual Distribution Trip to Oaxaca coming up August 18-26!
On August 18, 2018 our team of seven will arrive in Oaxaca City. We will head out in our rental van to buy the truckload of supplies for 1600 children and youth in Huajuapan de Leon, and pick up the hundreds of primary level workbooks donated by Montenegro Editores in Guadalajara once again this year! Then we will leave for the villages on Sunday Aug. 19, to pack and distribute all those school supplies with the high school students and the village authorities. It’s a heavy task, but very rewarding. Mike Akong will treat many many patients at his free acupuncture clinics, and we will visit the 27 orphans and disabled children we help every month. We will meet with the youth, and have some prayer services and perhaps Mass in the village churches. They will make us their best food, which in Oaxaca is really saying something, and we will enjoy their friendship. We will catch up with the students and hear about their exciting and challenging experiences at university in Oaxaca and Puebla.
All of this thanks to you, our donors. We and they are so grateful that you care about them and their futures.