SPONSOR 230 MEXICAN KIDS ASPIRING TO GET EDUCATION

Due to the current pandemic, we have taken some actions  to continue serving our community, adapting temporarily our activities, focusing to solve  the community´s urgent needs due to unemployment caused by the lock down. These are  : Food, economic reactivation and mental health care.

Food for the neediest population

The community, called Don Diego, that  our Foundation serves,  is  very poor, and is hurting more now, during  this crisis.  In collaboration with the group Amigos al 100 a local Non for profit organization, Fundación Comunitaria Don Diego is providing every two weeks, packages of basic food, to 63 families in the rural village Don Diego. We expect to continue raising money to feed these families for at least the next two months, while they recover their jobs.

Micro-credits for our community

 The current situation provides opportunities to engage with other civil society organizations Fundacion Comunitaria Don Diego established an emergency program to alleviate the community economy in Don Diego with Apoyo a Gente Emprendedora A.C (APOYO A.C.) , a non-for profit organization that support Mexicans bootstrap themselves out of poverty, and become financially independent for life  either to start their own businesses, or strengthen existing ones by providing management support, mentoring and interest-free loans.

 So far, 10  families in  the rural village of Don Diego have been supported with free-interest loans to help them to overcome the following 2-3 months, many of the villagers have lost their jobs or have not sales in their family businesses.

Donation of books for children in Don Diego Community These rural children need also help to have their minds busy. We are delivering books to children in our community to continue to encourage reading even in times of pandemic. 300 book are being distributed in the community.

Mental health services

Operating remotely during this pandemic

 During this period, a group of Psychologists, an expert in thanatology,  and social workers are  addressing the mental health issues created by this pandemic to provide psychological assistance needed now and throughout the recovery process.

 PREPARING FOR THE RETURN TO THE NEW NORMALITY IN OUR EDUCATION CENTER.

We foresee that our Education programs will continue, once the emergency is over, in a different and safer  physical  environment.  We are preparing open air teaching areas, to avoid crowded indoor classrooms.  See photographs bellow.  In addition to ask for your generous donations for the emergency support programs mentioned above, we ask for money to furnish with tables, benches and laptops ,  in order to continue our main goal of developing this community through EDUCATION and the use of technology to raise academic and social  preparation of the students.

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• We are a non profit organization, registered in Mexico