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Other Orphanages We Currently Serve |
Ebenezer - 17 children 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, leaving a huge gap for the staff there to fill. The home is in deplorable shape, children are squeezed into small bedrooms and there is no space to run around. Only outdoor bathrooms and showers exist on the property. Website La Roca - 42 children - 7 mothers 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 cabins with their children. The home attempts to support the mothers in seeking job skills and training. There are roughly 20 children on site with no parents. The home is difficult to access, due to the road conditions around the home. They are in great need of funds to support providing food, medicines, housing and some utilities, as well as capital funds to install a bathroom. Website Puerta de Fey (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 well run and the children are well fed and educated. This home is in great shape, but needs roughly $16,000 more per year to supplement existing support, thereby allowing it to enhance education, quality of food and care. It serves 100 children, 10 of whom have disabilities and 21 of whom are infants (at last count). Children are referred by DIF. CDV and a large group of individual US supporters are the major funders. Groups are encouraged to spend an outing camping at their two large campgrounds. Website: http://www.dofo.org/ Casa Hogar Sion - 102 children 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, most of whom Carmen takes from the streets, which are referred by DIF, or that are dropped off by families. They have a Christian focus, since Jorge is a pastor of a local church. They are in need of $20,000 more per year to support staff (3 workers care for 14 babies), educational needs, and job skills training for teens Website 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 few are referred by DIF. CDV is the homes primary support at the moment. This home is in tremendous need of great resources for utilities and housing. While the basics food costs are covered, there are no funds for electricity, water, septic pumping etc. Estado 29 (State 29) - 90 children Mexican minister Jose Acosta Zamora founded this home in August 1957 with five children who were orphans from the town of San Luis Rio Colorado in Sonora. Estado 29 was the first orphanage of San Antonio de las Minas, Ensenada, BC. In 1987, Pastor Acosta became very ill and thus he gave the direction of the orphanage to his daughter Debora and the church to his son Samuel. The economical situation of the orphanage was extremely critical: there was no money to pay the bills nor to buy food. Starting in 1990 a group of individuals from an Orange County church made the commitment to support this needy orphanage with some supplies, however there continues to be a tremendous need for funds for utilities, particularly water as the local water supply is sporadic at best. Rancho Milagro (Miracle Ranch) - 60 children Rancho Milagro is in La Mission Valley, just below Rosarito. Miracle Ranch is a strict Christian home with many children who have been abused. They need roughly $15,000 a year to supplement the funds provided by their primary support, a small group of US volunteers who raise funds. Tony and Maria, a couple who took over ten years ago, manage the home. They admit children who are referred by DIF (the Mexican social service agency). They welcome visitors and groups of all sizes. The home is in decent shape, but food and utilities are an ongoing struggle. Rancho El Faro - 28 children 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 temptation of drugs, gangs and other difficulties that surround El Faro. A new two-story dorm was recently built and a well was tapped for water, but the home is in dire need of most everything else. The teens go to school and help around the house, but their future is bleak without housing and food assistance. Hacienda de Imaculada (Home of the Immaculate)- 62 children - 8 mothers This 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 for food, but with CDV support now has plentiful food. The physical plant is in great shape, it is just in a very remote, and very poor area of TJ. They are in need of funds for school supplies, medicines, and many physical plant needs. Mothers who had no place to go - no home, and no resources, staff the home. These women brought their children to Hacienda to find shelter and care for all of the children in exchange for room and board. All the children and adults sleep in one large dorm room. Los Angelitos (Little Angels) - 45 children 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 there is a dire need for funds for staffing. Over half of the children are under 3 years old and go through 60 - 80 diapers per day! They have a computer lab and the kids are getting efficient, but they need additional education to take them to the next level. Only three staff support 48 children! Website |
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Hacienda de la Inmaculada |
| When Corazon de Vida first visited The Hacienda de la Inmaculada orphanage in Tijuana in September 2003, the home was in a very dire situation. They received no visitors or support from any USA groups. There was a desperate need for food. For lunch, the 62 children ate canned sardines in tomato sauce, rice, beans, tortilla and water most every day. The pantry and meat supply was desolate. Sister Virginia, the home director is the heart and soul of the orphanage. Without her, the place would surely have dissolved. She runs a tight ship, no one is allowed in the street and everyone sleeps in the same room. 90% of the children are between 5-10 years old. But everyone looked clean and healthy. Few children went to school as they did not have the money for uniforms, shoes, backpacks and supplies, even though the children wanted to go. The orphanage building's were in decent shape, kitchen was useable if there was food to cook. Bathrooms were barely operational and they would constantly be harassed by the bad elements surrounding the home. Today, Corazon de Vida and its donors are providing $3,560.00 per month for food, water and utilities. The home has grown to 90+ children and they also feed about 20 desperate people in the neighborhood in exchange for work around the home. The home has a 15 person passenger van that CDV donated for errands, taking the kids to school or church. A security fence was built to protect the residents from the dangerous neighborhood and a garden of fruits and vegetables is providing a nice harvest. New water fountains, bunk beds, refrigerators and playgrounds are in place as well as toilets that flush. All children are attending school, attending a local DARE program and are involved in school exercise programs. In just over two years, the Corazon de Vida Foundation and its donors have made a HUGE difference at the Hacienda. Please visit them one day on a Corazon de Vida bus trip and meet the children of La Hacienda de la Inmaculada. |
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