September News: Fall season starts, plus new merch!
This month, our Board of Directors came down to McAllen and Reynosa for their biannual visit. During our day in Reynosa, they helped pour a roof and organized...
This month, our Board of Directors came down to McAllen and Reynosa for their biannual visit. During our day in Reynosa, they helped pour a roof and organized...
In May, 10 women graduated from our sewing program in Reynosa after completing 15 months of study and practice under our instructor Lupita. Many of them started with zero experience with a sewing machine...
The Deantin community center is officially open to programming! This month, we moved our infant feeding program in Naranjito into the community center, and nurse Juli saw her first babies there.
This month, we built our final houses of the year in Reynosa, ending with Casa #31, with the help of five mission work groups with volunteers from Virginia, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
This month, we were visited in Reynosa by our friends across the border at McAllen First United Methodist for their monthly morning of volunteering with us! They helped with our children's nutrition program and delivered grocery packages to families in the community...
Now that the roof is poured (and has dried beautifully!) at the Deantin community center in Naranjtio, we are jumping right in to the next steps. Stuccoing the interior and exterior walls will be the most time-consuming step, so we’ve already got our crew on it!
This month, we wrapped up our fall season of teams with groups from Virginia, Indianapolis, North Carolina, and Alabama who built a total of five houses. Our staff and volunteers started construction on two more houses this month, bringing our total for 2023 to 30 houses.
This month was all about youth! We had three groups visit and volunteer with us -- one was returning after their first visit last year, one was 40+ people strong, and one was a completely brand new team! All of these groups had young people in them, and our local volunteers...