We are off to the Sierra Mixteca again! On Saturday Aug. 17, 2019 we will leave Oaxaca City for Huajuapan de Leon, purchase the supplies and head out on Sunday to the villages. Our team of six will be expertly supplemented by the high school students, authorities and teachers in the villages, for sorting, packing and distributing. It gets more streamlined every year!

Thanks to everyone who has donated to this year’s fund! Without your help, over 1500 children and youth would be without new school supplies and workbooks, 150 high school students would find it much more difficult to stay in school, and 16 university students would not be the pioneers they are, and an example of courage and perseverance to their peers.

Special thanks to Maria Elena Aguilar and Editores Montenegro for the generous donation of beautiful workbooks for every child in elementary school, over 700 children. The excitement of the kids when they get their books is indescribable!

We are so proud of our new graduates and will welcome more new students into our little scholarship program this year!

Every month we send a food stipend to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, usually because their parents died in accidents in Mexico or crossing the border, or because of untreated illness. In 2019 there are 33 orphans and disabled children who benefit from a little more security because of your donations.

In 2018 we began to take reading glasses to one village where the women are master embroiderers, but have to stop early due to presbyopia. Now they can keep up their creativity and find joy in their art again. We got such a great response we are taking more pairs this year, some for all the five villages.

Thanks to all, and please keep us in your prayers as we set out once again.

Photo credits: Martha Martin, 2018

If you wish to contribute to the many ongoing needs of the children and families, please go to our Donate page. All donations are tax-deductible.

Blessings on all!

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