BUILDING A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Welcome
Por Los Niños de Zihuatanejo
We are an all-volunteer educational foundation, created in 2005, dedicated to providing hope and opportunity to the least-advantaged children in our Mexican community. In this website, we will share our educational initiatives, our challenges and our accomplishments. Perhaps they will inspire you to join us, making dreams come true for our bright-eyed young scholars.
We started in 2005 with the idea of helping one community to build a classroom – at this point, we have built 138 classrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and playgrounds, including 14 new schools. Our nutrition program feeds 30,000+ breakfasts and lunches a year to hungry students, and we have helped to provide hundreds of scholarships. In addition, Por los Niños also provided a well to provide water to 2 schools.
During the pandemic we fed on average 1300 meals per week, serving 12 colonias near Primaria Centenario de la Revolución.
Poem – Values
Today will be a day, better than yesterday
I am going to strive, to give the best of me because I can do it, I am capable,
I am intelligent, I am unique, I am loved, I am kind, I am respectful, I am tolerant, I am happy, I am handsome, I am beautiful.
I will control my emotions and I was born with a purpose.
I am no better than anyone and nobody is better than me.
Say I!
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Old to new
The progress of "Centenario de la Revolución" Top: Original school "La Joya" Middle: second of the three classroom buildings, under the new name "Centenario de la Revolución". Bottom: Cancha with a roof.
New, safe classrooms
Safe structures
Volunteers: Parents and neighbors
In addition to volunteers, the parents and people in the neighborhoods all pitch in to help build schools.
Typical old schools
Meals for children
Lunchrooms provide quality, safe meals for children in the program. For some, this is the one quality meal of the day they receive.
FUND RAISING
SAILFEST, OUR YEARLY FUND RAISER
CAROL´S RICE AND BEANS PROGRAM
OUR MOST IMPORTANT PROJECT OF 2020
PARTNERS
SOB Vollebay
Rotary International
El Plateado
dif-zihuatanejo
El Hujal
ComunicaSoluciones
Municipio Zihuatanejo de Azueta
Snappylogos
All our volunteers
English Plus
TESTIMONIALS
Great organization to get involved in! – Jeannie
Great organization to get involved in. God has blessed them by raising many pesos to rebuild the school system in Zihuatanejo! Jeannie Krueger Cotner
I fell in love with the kids at the school and never left – Carol
It was a program that started at Octavio Paz Primary, they had just started a lunch program with the idea that any profits after they fed low-income children, would go to purchase equipment for the school. I asked one day how the lunch program was going, they said not...
We felt connected to the children – Bob and Yvonne
My husband I first began going to Zihuantanejo 4 years ago. We were encouraged to volunteer for Sailfest and loved every minute of it. Although our role was small we could see the benefit to the community and especially the children that it serves. We discovered that...