Catherine’s Children Home (Rosarito)

Mission: To transform the lives of underprivileged or abandoned, medically fragile special needs children by providing a loving and nurturing home where their emotional, medical, educational, and spiritual needs are met, giving them an opportunity to live to their full potential..

 Director : Susan M. Fasino

Project overview: Inspired by the values that Jesus Christ set before us, we follow His example as we work with the world’s most vulnerable children. We will change the way the world cares for abandoned special needs and medically fragile children.

Current Needs:For information on how you can help this project please contact Casa Hogar de Catherine – office (661) 612-36-22  U. S. #(858) 442-0610

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Instituto Madre Asunta, A.C.
(Mother Asunta Institute)

Mission: Centro Madre Asunta practices the teaching of Jesus Christ which is to love thy neighbor as ours selves and to see the face of Christ in each migrant that is helped.

Number Served: 600 per year.

Director: Sister Adelia Contini

Location: Colonia Reforma, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 1980

Project Overview: Centro Madre Asunta is a sister organization of Casa de los Migrantes and is affiliated with las Hermanans Misioneras de San Carlos Borromeo Scalabrininanas. The Center was the first in Tijuana to establish a method of providing dignified assistance to women and children who have been displaced after deportation from the United States or are migrating from central Mexico.  The Center provides three meals per day, clothes, shoes, legal assistance, psychological care, spiritual and medical assistance, as well as access to phones.  The Center has been in existence for 17 years and has helped 17,000 migrant women and children.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Sister Anette at (664) 683-0575 or email amtonial@hotmail.com

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Hospital Sagrado Corazón
(Sacred Heart Hospital)

Mission: To provide medical services to the poorest members of the community.

Number Served: 1,800 per year.

Director: Sister María Cristina Ledezma Ramírez

Location: Colonia Independencia, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 2007

Project Overview: Hospital Sagrado Corazon is affiliated and overseen by the Sacred Heart Sisters of Jesus. The hospital currently provides free medical services to 1,800 individuals per year, and networks with the Red Cross to screen patients and refer them to the most appropriate medical facility.

Current Needs: Financial support to cover basic medical supplies, medical equipment, water, facilities, and worker salaries.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Sister Alba Patricia (664) 685-6318 or email pbchospital_sagrado@hotmail.com
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Friends of the Poor

Mission: To respond to the needs of the poor without regard to race, color, creed, gender, or nationality. To collect food, clothing, medicines, medical equipment, funds and other necessities of life for the poor.  To distribute those items and funds to existing agencies, groups, organizations or individuals providing direct service to the poor.

Number Served: 1,500 per year.

Director: Mrs. Colleen Garbaczewski

Location: Colonia Cestillo, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 1996

Project Overview: Friends of the Poor is associated with the Catholic Church and provides bi-weekly food distribution, educational support, over the counter medication, referrals for medical procedures, and spiritual guidance.  Friends of the Poor also works closely with Sister Antonia who ministers to the men in the Tijuana prison.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Claudia (664) 109-71-40 & Colleen (619) 507-0929

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Coalición Pro Defensa del Migrante, A.C.
(Coalition for the Defense of Migrants)

Mission: To provide basic human rights to repatriated men, women, and children by offering social services such as dignified shelter, transportation, and clean food three times per day.

Number Served: 3,500 repatriated immigrants monthly.

Director: Dr. Jose A. Moreno Mena

Location: Colonia Postal, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 2005

Project Overview: Coalición Pro-Defensa del Migrante guarantees basic human rights to the migrant population being deported from the United States through Tijuana, B.C.. Because many of the repatriated citizens have lived in the United States for many years, they suffer from shock, confusion, and have no where to live in Mexico.  The Coalición Pro-Defensa del Migrante provides social service information pamphlets, orientation,  access to phones in order to connect with family, transportation to temporary homeless shelters or to their homes, as well as monitoring of human rights violations and deportation conditions.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Esmeralda Siu (664) 607-7077 or email coalipro@hotmail.com

Casa San Eugenio Dispensario
(San Eugenio Home)

Mission: To assist the poor with spiritual, medical, educational and psychological needs, to promote better living conditions for the families in the community.
Number Served: 52 thousand locals annually from 14 surrounding Colonias.

Parish Director: Sister Rosa Alba Mendia

Location: Colonia La Morita II, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 2000

Project Overview: In 1996 Fr. Robert Callahan of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded the San Eugenio de Mazenod Mission (a.k.a Parroquia San Eugenio de Mazenod) on the outskirts of Tijuana in an area known as La Morita. Casa San Eugenio Dispensario was established in 2000, and is adjacent to the Parroquia San Eugenio de Mazenod in the heart of La Morita II. The facility is managed by Sister Rosa Alba Mendia of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Order.
The clinic in partnership with SHI, Rotary International, and other local civic groups, has grown from a small temporary structure to a three story facility which now provides social, medical, psychological, educational, and spiritual services to more than 52 thousand locals annually from the surrounding 14 Colonias.  Community members are charged for medical services on a sliding scale.
The community center is dedicated to improving the physical and mental condition of the surrounding community by promoting, encouraging, directing, and co-sponsoring activities that will promote social, sports, educational and cultural development. The center provides classes in computers, sewing, cosmetology, nutrition, and English.  These labs will help community members learn new skills to improve their job marketability and help create a sustainable local environment. To learn more about this program, please visit them at Casa San Eugenio.

Of Note: Casa San Eugenio was recently featured in the Frontera newspaper as having surpassed their 2010 service projections by 12 thousand for the rural area of La Morita where the clinic is located.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Sister Marta Cruz (664) 901-8487 or email casaneugeniodis@yahoo.com.mx
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Casa Hogar del Anciano Juan Pablo II
(John Paul II Home for the Elderly)

Mission: To take care of the elderly with love and compassion so that they can live the end of their years with dignity.

Number Served: 35 live-in senior citizens.

Director: Father Mario Heredia

Location: Colonia La Joya, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 2008

Project Overview: Casa Hogar del Anciano Juan Pablo II is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is a rest home for senior citizens who have been abandoned by their families and are unable to care for themselves.  The rest home provides social services in the form of food, clothing, medical, spiritual, and social activities in a clean environment. Residents are fed three times a day and receive blankets, shoes, clothing and hygiene items provided at Christmas time by Serving Hands International. The facility currently provides services to 30 senior citizens, but it is anticipated that accommodations will be increased to help house up to 100 senior citizens.

Current Needs: To provide food, clothing, blankets, and medication necessary in order to cover the basic human necessities.

For information on how you can help this project please contact Sister Olga Carmona Diaz (664)636-1609
or email casahogarJP@hotmail.com
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