How you can help

Want to help? You can donate funds or volunteer at two organizations featured in the book:

Church in Northern Mexico that runs an immigrant shelter:
Parroquia de San Jose
Attn: Father Leonardo Lopez Guajardo
Apartado 26
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Codigo Postal 88000
MEXICO
Phone: 011-52-867-712-8145.

Father Leo founded this shelter for migrants. At the end of this website there is information in English and a way to email or call the shelter if you want to help:

www.migrante.com.mx/aguaprieta.htm

View a video of the shelter at:

http://humanitarianmedia.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1974476%3AVideo%3A2126&xgs=1

Shelter in Southern Mexico run by Olga Sanchez Martinez that helps immigrants hurt by the train, the Albergue Jesús el Buen Pastor del pobre y el Migrante:
Albergue Jesús el Buen Pastor del pobre y el Migrante
Attn: Olga Sanchez Martinez
Calle Rio de la Plata
Manzana 8
Casa 20
Infonavit Las Vegas
Tapachula, Chiapas
CP 30798
MEXICO
Phone: 011-52-962-626-9698

The following website has a link with instructions on how to send money directly via paypal (to be used for prosthesis, medicine, blood units, surgeries and reconstructive surgical materials): www.alberguebuenpastor.org.mx

Other Ways to Help
Consume “fair trade” products, such as coffee and clothing, where the people who produce these goods in Latin America are guaranteed a living wage.

Honduras Threads helps women in Honduras sew beautiful embroidered pillow cases. The cases are sold via their website. Also, M'Lou Bancroft, who started the organization in Dallas and heads it for free, can help you set up a party to sell the cases, which are works of art. M'Lou started this effort after a 2002 church mission to Honduras, and she now helps employ 80 women in Tegucigalpa. You can see their beautiful products here.

M'Lou believes the solution to the migration issue is to help provide women in Honduras with work that allows them to feed and clothe their children so they don't feel forced to leave for the United States. Sonia Nazario serves on Honduras Threads' advisory board.

Fair Trade Federation screens organizations according to rigorous fair trade guidelines.

Equal Exchange sells fair trade coffee and other products, through churches and retail

SERRV has an online catalog of fair trade clothing and gifts

Fair Indigo sells fair trade clothing and gifts

Readers Suggest
Readers have sent me many suggestions of groups that work to create jobs in Central America and Mexico so mothers can stay in their home countries--with their children.

The Adelante Project in Honduras

The Chiapas Project of the Grameen Foundation

The Global Fund for Women

Kiva, where you fund microcredit loans directly to an individual.

Trickle Up

Accion International

Women's World Banking

Hispanics in Philanthropy

Xela Aid

Women's Empowerment International

Heifer International

Global Partnerships

Finca International Inc.

Project Concern

Cafe Feminino Project and Foundation