CDV Quick Facts

2,250 meals served every day
2,450 diaper changes a week
1,204 loads of laundry every month
750 showers per day
450 kids transported to school per day
14 Orphanages Served

Supported Homes

Grace Childrens Home

40 children - 9 staff This 4 year old orphanage located in south Tijuana is a wonderfully run home with great potential. They have recently completed a new 4 story building with medical offices, libra...
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La Hacienda

62 children - 8 mothers La Hacienda De La Inmaculada is a home in the Matamoras region in Tijuana. Run by Madre Virginia, a former hermit in the Catholic faith, the home was in serious need of funds ...
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La Roca

This home, found close to Ebenezer in central Tijuana, is modeled somewhat differently than other CDV homes. Abused and extremely poor mothers are brought to La Roca and live in individual housing cab...
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Ebenezer

This small home in central Tijuana is run by two workers, one of whom travels daily to San Diego to clean houses to support the home. CDV provides only $400 a month currently to help with food, leavin...
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Door of Faith

Puerta de Fe (Door of Faith) - 108 children This is a beautiful facility in La Mission Valley, run by DJ and Lynette Schuetze, US missionaries, and was the first home CDV funded in 1994. The home is ...
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Rancho El Faro

Rancho El Faro, located in the Guadalupe Valley, northeast of Ensenada, is an annex of El Faro in Tijuana. The home director moved the older teens to this rural location to keep them away from the tem...
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Hogar Sion

Jorge and Carmen Gonzales started this home in the Matamoras region of east Tijuana when they sold their home to buy land and start the orphanage four years ago. They have between 90 and 100 children,...
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Hogar Esperanza

The Esperanza orphanage has been in the southwest part of Tijuana for over 20 years and sits on an unusually large piece of land for being in such an urban area. The home has about 55 children ranging...
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El Faro 1

65 children - 6 mothers The home was founded in 1996 with 25 children in a particularly tough area of Tijuana. Today it serves 65 children, most of whom are dropped off by their families, although a ...
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Hogar San Jose

Serves 15 children in central Tijuana who all battle terminal illness. The home also supports 40 families with chronically ill children in TJ. The home needs about $14,000 a year for food, medicines, ...
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Los Angelitos

CDV volunteer Ed Perry founded this home in Fall, 2003 in South Tijuana. The property is a beautiful former private home and is operating at full capacity. Current funding for food is adequate, but th...
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750 CHILDREN A DAY...

That's the number of young lives touched by you and the largest supporter of orphaned and abandoned children in Baja Mexico,

Corazon de Vida.

Please play the movie above and if you like what you see, join us in our efforts
to help the precious children.

Latest Happenings at CDV:

Orphanage Trips

"Why does no one visit us any more?" "Did we do something wrong?"
Difficult questions we have been answering lately, but have reassured the children that it is our problem, not theirs. If you have not been on one of our orphanage trips, you are missing out. We need your smiles, your arms to hug, your artistic talent to color, and your desire to make a difference even if it is just for a few hours. We promise you that the kids will give you more than what we can possibly give to them.

We have trips scheduled for Saturday, July 11 and Saturday, August 15. Click HERE for more information or to register. Check out PHOTOS of past trips and see this VIDEO for a trip overview. If you are interested in sponsoring lunch for the day or if you have any questions, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

CDV Online Donation Campaign

Most of you know first hand the work that Corazon de Vida is able to do with your donations. You have visited our homes and have seen our kids go from fear and despair to joy, wonder and possibility. To continue our good work, we need your help now more than ever! We need to raise life-sustaining support for these kids and the easiest, most fun way to do that is by creating your own online pledge campaign. Do you have a birthday coming up? Have your friends donate to CDV instead of a tie or purse! Running a race? Collect pledges from family and friends to support you. Are you going to join us on an orphanage trip? Build a pledge page to help us support the kids after your visit.

People want to help and if you ask, they will donate to a Cause that you support. Please join other friends and help us TODAY by clicking HERE.

And A Place to Lay Their Heads...
Corazon de Vida is assisting Hacienda de la Immaculada with the purchase of 34 new bunk beds. These beds address a long standing need and increase the number of children comfortably served by this orphanage.

Singer Graciously Donates Fees
Apogee Electronics in Los Angeles and the John Fogerty Foundation are donating all recording fees to Corazon de Vida. A special thanks to Bob, Betty and John Fogerty (all your continued support)... for the donation of the Gibson Guitar autographed by John.