Charitable Organizations

ALMA Home for the elderly needy of San Miguel. Tel: 15-2-28-66 or 15-2-72-10

Audubon Society. A bicultural organization working to preserve the ecosystem. Tel: 15-2-57-94 or 15-2-24-35

Biblioteca Publica. San Miguel public library. Tel: 15-2-02-93

CASA: Family planning within the broad
context of reproductive rights, environmental wellbeing, empowerment
of women, and access to health-care and education.

CASA Maternity Hospital: Serving women and families since 1994
with affordable, quality health-care including a staff of professional
midwives, gynecologists, pediatricians, surgeons, optomologists,
podiatrists, obsetricians, and dentists. tel: 1526181, fax: 1526121

Casa Ayuda. Helps with education, health care, clothes, food and education for needy children. Tel: 15-2-42-02

Casa Hogar Don Bosco. Cares for girls who have been abandoned or are without parents.Tel: 15-2-11-95

Centro de Crecimiento. Provides rehabilitation and child development for disabled children. Tel: 15-2-03-18

F.A.I. Helps children in rural areas. Tel: 15-2-35-19 or 15-2-08-97

Feed the Hungry. Provides food for poor mothers and their children. Tel: 15-2-19-15

Lions International. Helps poor people with eye care. Tel: 15-2-08-73 or 15-2-35-99

Los Amigos de Mexiquito. Provides help for orphaned and abused boys. Tel: 15-2-50-82

IREE. Provides help for children with learning disabilities. Tel: 15-2-09-13

Casa Hogar Santa Julia Don Bosco, A.C. – Provides shelter, etc., for girls from dire family circumstances. 152-3709 – SMA; 925-418-8003 – US. http:// www.santajulia.org

Mujeres en Cambio (Women in Change). Provides help with disadvantaged women in rural communities. Tel: 15-2-
71-76 or 15-2-84-28

Patronato Pro Ninos. Provides medical care for poor children. Tel: 15-2-63-82 or 15-2-50-33

San Miguel School of English. Provides inexpensive English classes for adult Mexicans. Tel: 15-2-25-54 or 15-2-11-66

Sociedad Protectora de Animales (SPA) Provides a reception and adoption center for lost and unwanted animals and low-cost veterinary services such as vaccination and sterilization. Tel: 15-2-61-24.

T.A.U. Gives assistance to the economically needy. Tel: 15-2-13-98

More About the Organizations

Fundación de Apoyo Infantil Guanajuato

FAI is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to help change the lives of children in the poorest regions of Guanajuato. FAI teaches organic farming, water and soil conservation, the use of medicinal plants, gender identity and sexuality, and nutrition among others. FAI promotes the rights of children such as survival, development, protection and equality. For more information or to make a donation, call (4) 152-3686, email faigto@unisono.net.mx or visit http://www.faigto.com. Or, stop by their offices at Hidalgo 13, Centro, San Miguel de Allende, GTO, 37700.

FAI is in need of the following objects:
Table gamesChess, Strategy, Lotera, Chinese Checkers, Dominos, Memory, Chutes and Ladders, etc.
Traditional gamesMarbles, yo-yos, spinning tops, cup and ball, etc.
SportsFootballs, Raquets, tennis balls, ping pong sets, bowling, etc.

Patronato Pro Nios
Patronato Pro Nios is a charitable organization dedicated to providing urgently needed medical care to the economically deprived children of San Miguel and the rural countryside. For over 20 years, Patronato has worked to restore health and hope to youngsters who would otherwise have neither.

The Patronato is currently offering its Eighth Annual Spring Break package from March 11-17, 2002. Spring Break gives participants the opportunity to see San Miguel from a privileged and unique viewpoint, with special events planned by people who live in San Miguel and know the city and its environs. Most of all, this is an opportunity to contribute to one of the oldest and most worthwhile charities of San Miguel. Over 60% of the cost of the package is a US tax deductible contribution to Patronato. These funds are used to help pay for the cost of helping heal children with everything from cleft palates to cancer.

The Michael Wein Charitable Foundation
The Michael Wein Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of its Grants Program that, beginning in March 2002, will be donating funds to local charitable organizations. The Foundation is now accepting applications so that it may begin planning for recipients within the Program. Any not-for-profit organization located in San Miguel, whose primary activities benefit the children of San Miguel, is invited to apply for an initial grant from the Foundation. To apply for a grant, or for more information, please send email to MPWINSMA@unisono.net.mx, or call Michael Wein, between 4:00 and 5:30 pm only, at 152-2654.

Mujeres en Cambio
Mujeres En Cambio is a nonprofit organization committed to developing economic sustainability and education for impoverished women living primarily in the rural desert communities of central Mexico. Mujeres en Cambio matches dollars with sound investments in developing opportunities for women. We provide support as directly as possible, responding to individual proposals and requests. Web Site

CASA

Center for the Adolescents of San Miguel de Allende For over a quarter of a century, the Mexican non-profit organization CASA has developed a multi-tier, integrated and replicable model of intervention based on the premise that family planning is one of the most important means of improving the quality of life for any person or community and that family planning should be provided within the broader context of reproductive rights, environmental well-being, empowerment of women and access to health care and education. CASA currently reaches over 50,000 people a year, operates in six states in Mexico, and offers amongst its programs a modern community center for local youth; a maternity hospital and family health clinic offering free HIV testing, Pap smears, birth control, professional midwives, pre- post-natal care, and numerous other services; a midwife program that includes Mexico's first and only government-accredited school of midwifery; a child development center and daycare for infants and children up to 6 years old; a library which offers a collection for children, teenagers and adults alike, including up-to-date computers and software, videos, cultural events, and classes; a bi-weekly radio program featuring radio soap operas and dedicated to providing an entertaining alternative education in sexuality and often ignored social issues; professional counseling; and a dedicated anti-violence program.

www.casa.org.mx