[Sdpg] Tijuana Americas Foundations and Colonia La Esperanza. Join James Hubbell on workday

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hi everyone here is Project that needs our help, the landscape around the 
school has ben designed
by Bill Roley and put in with the help of Permaculture folks, I am going 
down to help on Sat Jan 19, hope to see some of you there
                 wes roe santa barbara permaculture network

http://www.americasfoundation.net/

For more details, e-mail: C2E2BRADY at aol.com We also maintain an e-mail 
mailing list for alerts before
events (like Volunteer Work Days). E-mail Christine to receive these alerts.

The Next Volunteer Workdays are:

Saturday, January 19, 2002

Saturday, February 16, 2002

Saturday, March 16, 2002

All Volunteer Work Days are at Colonia La Esperanza. Join James Hubbell and 
other volunteers as they
continue to work on the dream of building an inspirational learning 
environment for the residents of Colonia
La Esperanza (see also Architecture and Volunteering). We meet at the 
parking area of the H street Trolley
in Chula Vista, CA at 8:30 a.m. on the Saturday listed. Look for Jim's 
white mini van. Expect to arrive in the
Colonia around 9:30 a.m., work until 3:00 p.m. and be back in Chula Vista 
around 4:00 p.m. In general, it's
helpful if you bring work gloves, a straw hat and/or any general tools, 
like a drill, hammer or sander. We
take a lunch break from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Bring your own lunch. Beginners 
and professionals are
welcome. You can bring your kids! If you try to find the schools on your 
own ask a Taxi cab driver to direct
you to Colonia La Esperanza in the Subdelegacion Sanchez Taboada of La 
Mesa, Tijuana. The telephone
from inside Tijuana is 626-46-98 or 660-31-94.

   Tijuana is an unusual place. Not even 15 miles from one
  of the richest cities of the world lies the third largest of
  Mexico's cities (at least 3 million people, even though
  nobody knows for sure). Colonia Esperanza is one of the
  poorest neighbourhoods in Tijuana - many houses are
  without water, electricity, and sewage systems, many
  family dwellings are subject to the whims of the
  environment, and the structures do not hold up well in
  heavy rain and/or earthquakes. The streets in many
  colonias are not paved.


                                               In this environment many 
children grow up without the
                                          basic education that could enable 
them to change their
                                          situation, and ultimately build a 
new environment for their
                                          children.
      Education empowers. We are working to create schools
  high in expectations and rich in beauty, with the belief that
  our students will transcend the bounds of poverty and
  become self-reliant, engaged, and inspired leaders of the
  future.


                                               We operate two schools 
located six miles south of the
                                          U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, 
the "Jardin de Ninos La
                                          Esperanza" and "Colegio La 
Esperanza". The schools,
                                          aptly named "the Children's 
Garden of Hope" and "the
                                          School of Hope", provide 250 
disadvantaged children
                                          complete educational instruction 
through the sixth grade.

                                          The Americas Foundation believes 
that many of the
                                          children touched by the spirit of 
our endeavor will return to
                                          their Colonias and change the 
environment forever. We
                                          offer financial assistance to 
individuals for medical or legal
                                          emergencies, and direct aid to 
the Colonia in times of
                                          extreme hardship. We also provide 
academic scholarships
                                          to students who graduate from 
Colonia Esperanza schools
                                          and wish to continue their education.
       Each person's voice should be heard. In addition to
  building and operating schools, a natural outgrowth of this
  project has been to guide and support residents of the
  Colonia who organize to further common causes that affirm
  basic human rights.

       The people of the Colonia have successfully lobbied
  their government to build more schools. In addition, they
  have hastened the installation of public utilities, a sewer
  system, telephone lines and paved roads, and have
  secured local political representation for the future growth
  of their community.



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