Our Family

As the days wind down before we get on the bus for a short 36 hour non-stop ride to San Diego the organization that we work with in Mexico, Absolute Leadership Development has sent us info on the family we will build for.

Juan, Marcilina and their three children Yolanda, Ayaceli, and Juan Jose are currently living in a small camper trailer.  You can see the camper behind them in the picture below.  Juan and Marcilina work in cactus farms and have worked hard to pay for the plot of land for their new home.  The two older children attend a local school and hope that they will continue to attend a house will help this family have the space they need to raise their children.

Our second project will be to build a preschool building which is twice the size of the house we will build.  In the area we are building their is a new subdivision (dirt roads and fenced plots) the government would like a school there.  Once there is a building built the government will supply a teacher and the needed classroom equipment.  Along with building the building we will fence in the property and build some playground equipment.

The house we will build is a 20 x 22 building with three window and a lockable door.  The school is twice this size but even then will not be close to the size of homes we live in.  By the end or our two weeks in Mexico a family will have a new home to raise their three children and a community will have a school they can send their young children.  A home and school are both things that we in Canada take for granted but most people in the world do not have these luxuries.