BASICS:
WHO:
This trip is an intergenerational trip. That means we will take 34 total people and our goal is that 17 will be adults and 17 will be students. This trip is open to high school students to go with or without their parents. Middle school students may also go to this, but only if accompanied by a parent or guardian.
WHEN:
March 26-31. 2010
WHERE:
San Louis Rio Colorado, Mexico.
WHY:
800,000 Mexican families don’t have basic secure homes. 40% live below the poverty line. People can work nonstop and still see poverty tear their families apart. The situation is even more severe along the Mexico-US border because they come to the border towns in hope of finding work in the US. Others are involved in the immigration struggle and find themselves deported even after spending years in the US and building their families and homes here. The border towns become the only home for many with few resources. The churches in Mexico are faced with caring for the permanent residents of their communities as well as those who have more recently sought refuge in their communities In San Luis Rio Colorado, some quarter of a million people seek to make their homes and to raise their families. Some are well established and have suitable means of support, though far below standards north of the border. Others have managed to acquire a small lot and are trying to find meager ways to build some type of home. The poorer of these families live in the community south of the city in the area served by Iglesia Metodista Ismaschias, and their pastor, Enrique Uranga.
WHAT:
We build a home for a family in need, attend church, interact with local families who work along side of us and visit the beach one afternoon.
COST:
$825. subject to change based on airfare.