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We are back at Ciudad de Angeles and we are DOUBLING our efforts this year! After creating a mural project for the kids and building metal beds last winter, we are back and we are doing it DOUBLE this year!
I am an art therapist and a decorative painter. Art is healing, expressive, and fun! One of my projects is working with 8 of the kids to create a mural that tells a story about their family and their life for the entrance of the portico of their "neighborhood" (across from the one created last year), AND we will have a canvas art painting studio for several of the older kids who did the mural project last year and want to practice their fine art skills this year. The materials will cost about $600 for paints, brushes, containers, and drawing materials, and canvases. Creating art is such a therapuetic activity!
My husband David is an artist blacksmith and will be making 4 metal bunk beds and 2 single beds for the 4 operating houses. Due to some negative circumstances, they had to close one of the houses and re-organize those kids into the other 4 houses. They are DOUBLING up in many of the bedrooms. Wood beds don't last, and the metal beds you can buy are flimsy and expensive (2x the cost of making sturdy ones that he can make for them). The cost for each bunk bed is about $200, and the single beds are about $110. The first thing David will do is make a work table that is also a jig for making the beds. We have to buy much of the small disposable items, like wire for the welder, metal cleaner, cutting wheels, and grinding wheels that are needed to make the beds.
Please help us make the greatest impact that we can. You won't miss that $25, $50, or $100 so much, but it will mean a whole different world to these children.
Ciudad de Angeles is an orphanage in Cozumel Mexico that is home for 42 kids; 5 months to 18 years old. It is not an adopting orphange, the kids live there in family settings until they are 18, with their biological brothers and sisters whenever possible. At 18 they can move into the transitional housing to ease into independent life and attend college if they wish (college in Mx is free, but you have to have funds for books, room, and board.) Attending college is encouraged by the orphanage.
We now know that Mexico is a very different culture, the orphanage relies completely on donations and volunteerism from the States and beyond. There are no state or local governmental funds given to the orphanage. The construction on the 6th house came to a halt and the construction crew was let go when they ran out of funds this year. The #6 house stands less than half built, a testament it is to what a challenge it can be to get things completed here. Cozumel is also a place where we see that easels with a coloring book page is a "penny attraction" at fairs and celebrations; most of the kids don't have paint, markers, or even crayons at home.
Help us have a positive impact on the 42 children here at Ciudad de Ageles, you donation will be meaningful, change creating, and appreciated beyond words!
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