Our Home in Mexico

In 1954, Father Wasson founded the first home of OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS in Mexico. Today, about 930 children and adolescents are living in our facilities in Miacatlán, Cuernavaca and Monterrey. More than 100 additional children from the vicinity – amongst them children who live in the street or the close-by garbage dump Milpillas – receive our support.

Why your support is so important:

• Every fourth person lives below the poverty line
• Out of 1,000 children, 35 do not live to become 5 years old
• 8 % of the Mexicans do not know how to read and write*

There is a huge social gap within the Mexican society. The war fought between the drug cartels is a growing menace to the population. Especially children are defenselessly exposed to poverty, illness and violence. Almost a third of the Mexican population is younger than 15.**

*Source: Foreign Ministry, World Bank

Our facilities and programs:

• Facilities in Miacatlán:
  • CASA SAN SALVADOR – house for babies, boys and girls as well as kinder garden
  • ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL – Elementary school and subsequent middle school with technical vocational education (mechanics, sewing, industrial design, accounting)
  • AGRICULTURE – Breeding of cattle, poultry and fish, fruit- and vegetable-growing
• Facilities in Cuernavaca:
  • CASA BUEN SEÑOR – Younger student’s dormitories
  • BACHILLERATO - Technical secondary school
  • HOTEL VILLA - Preparation of the young people for an autonomous life
• Facilities in Monterrey:
  • CASA SAN LUIS – Elder student’s dormitory
• Special aid programs:
  • "LIFE TEEN"-PROGRAM: Religious education
• Outreach-Program:
  • MILPILLAS - Meals and medical care for the children who live at the garbage dump

You can help within the following categories:

Living	Agriculture	Food
Education	Clothing	Medicine

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