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tortuga
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Here are a couple of cute kids from el reino de los ninos. These places always need essentials . Stuffed animals are a big hit with the kids though
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tortuga
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el sauzal
Marla,
Here is web site I just found for El Sauzal.
www.elsauzal.org/Children.html . They are in Ensenada area
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bent-rim
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Does anyone have any current information about the El Oasis Orphanage outside of Valle de Trinidad?
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wilderone
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Marla, if you've succeeded in writing a story on the orphanages, could you share with us here?
Just curious - why are there so many orphans? It's not like this is a war-ravaged country, or AIDS-ridden, and usually plenty of extended family
support. ?????
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
Marla, if you've succeeded in writing a story on the orphanages, could you share with us here?
Just curious - why are there so many orphans? It's not like this is a war-ravaged country, or AIDS-ridden, and usually plenty of extended family
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Perhaps because there's nomadic indigenous people who just can't care for them. That may be part of the reason.
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rdrrm8e
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when I was travelling Baja I supported this one:
http://www.dofo.org/index.php
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thebajarunner
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Dennis is correct
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
Marla, if you've succeeded in writing a story on the orphanages, could you share with us here?
Just curious - why are there so many orphans? It's not like this is a war-ravaged country, or AIDS-ridden, and usually plenty of extended family
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Perhaps because there's nomadic indigenous people who just can't care for them. That may be part of the reason. |
These kids' parents, by and large, are not deceased.
They just cannot (or will not) take care of the kids.
So, they end up in the street, or with DIF and if they are lucky they get into a well run, so-called "orphanage."
Referenced in this thread last year was the foundation started by some of "my kids" which is really a reliable source of info on the subject,
check it out.
http://www.corazondevida.org/
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marla
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Sorry I just found this thread from February. Here is the story I wrote if you're interested in reading it. The government in Mexico provides no
financial support for the orphanages. So they exist only because kind-hearted people support them. Most of the "orphans" I visited actually have been
abandoned by their parents due to drug addiction, severe poverty or other reasons. Unlike the U.S. Mexico does not have a tradition of adoption so
these kids will never be adopted like my children, Michael and Sandy, who I adopted as foster children because their mom could not get off drugs. The
people at Corazon are very worried what is going to happen to their contributions once you need a passport to cross the border. Fyi, there's also a
cool slideshow on the righthand side of the photo. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/irvine/artic...
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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