This year Manos Amigas was blessed with many things: generous donations, a growing KC core team and a new online presence! We ended the year with donations exceeding our initial need. This has allowed us to expand our services and explore new ways to create a better tomorrow. Thank you all for your continued support! Kids
Every Christmas the Anapra Core Team plans, coordinates and distributes food baskets to all the families of the students sponsored in the Manos Amigas program as well as the 20 abuelas (elderly). This year we sponsored 70 baskets. That's 70 families! Shopping for these baskets is a large undertaking and takes several days
Thanksgiving is a unique American holiday. It is the day we take time out to count our blessings: family friends, health, good food, shelter, jobs, and all the things we are privileged to enjoy because we were born and live in the United States. Manos Amigas gives thanks for the relationship with our family across
A great success story is found in Haydee Carbajal. Haydee was a sponsored student in Anapra from her grade school years.
Each year Manos Amigas provides a Christmas food basket to families in the Anapra community. This year Anapra volunteers bagged 67 baskets!! 43 families and 24 abuelas (grandmas). It takes a lot of volunteers in Anapra to make this happen every year! One of core members in Anapra, her husband and son spend an early
Lute lives at home with her son, Jesus (19 years old). Jesus is the one who supports himself and his mom. Lute is originally from Torreon. She came to Juarez when she was 15 years old. Her parents decided to move to Juarez for work because her father did not have a good job in
Hear about the story of Bertha Infante, one of our core members in Anapra.
Faustina and her family came to Anapra looking for land to build in order to have their own place to live. Faustina is from Juarez and her husband is from Durango. In 2004 with 4 children at the time they got a big land and decided to divide it in three parts; one part for
Margarita and her husband Daniel came to Cd. Juarez from Oaxaca in 1999. They left Margarita’s two small sons in Oaxaca with their grandparents. They came to look for a better future for their children. In Oaxaca the teachers would miss school a lot, and the schools were extremely poor. Margarita knew her children would
When I came to Anapra I had five children. The youngest was 5 months old. We moved to Anapra looking for our own place to live where our kids could run and play and feel free. We had been renting close to downtown where there was running water, electricity and schools were close by. But,
