Mexico

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Guadalajara (Boystown)
Chalco (Girlstown)
Our Children’s Village for Boys in Guadalajara and our Children’s Village for Girls in Chalco provide live-in technical, middle and high school education to children from families in extreme poverty, whose ages range from 12 to 18.

         Quick facts about Mexico
  • Education is the only hope for children to break free of poverty
  • 13% of children under five suffer from stunted growth
  • Only 41% of people in rural areas have adequate sanitation facilities
  • Over three million people live on less than $1 a day (From unicef.org )
  • 20.4% live on less than $2 a day – over 22 million people (From infoplease.com )
She still remembers going to bed hungry and wearing rags for
a dress - but now she has a chance to escape a life of suffering.

Chalco (Girlstown)
  • 4 seven-story buildings for children’s dormitories and classrooms
  • 2 workshops for vocational training
  • 2 single and 1 double gymnasium with stage
  • 1 semi-Olympic size swimming pool
  • 10 football fields
  • 20 basketball courts
  • 2 miniature concrete-surfaced football rapido (soccer) courts.
  • Day Care Center for the children of the poor in Valle del Chalco
  • 1 three-story building for dressmaking workshop and a dormitory for the graduates
  • 1 sewage treatment plant
  • 1 Day Care & Women’s training center (located 30 min. from Girlstown)


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Guadalajara (Boystown)
  • 2 seven-story buildings with dormitories and classrooms for boys
  • 1 three-story workshop for vocational training
  • 1 semi-Olympic size indoor swimming pool
  • 1 machine and carpentry workshop
  • 1 automechanics workshop
  • 6 soccer fields
  • 2 miniature concrete-surfaced football rapido (soccer) courts
  • 1 sewage treatment plant
  • 8 greenhouses for high-tech farming
  • 5 covered-tanks for fish culture


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