Juntos Servimos - Together We Serve Serving people in need in Mexico by eliminating barriers to physical and spiritual wholeness, one community at a time!
Juntos Servimos is a response to invitations from leaders of distressed colonias in Matamoros, Mexico to assist them in their efforts to transform their communities.
Colonias simply means “neighborhoods”. The colonias we serve were started in the mid-1990s by people who moved from the interior of Mexico to the border with the United States expecting to find work. Largely, the work was not there, nor was affordable housing. So they squatted on land near former city garbage dumps. Several years later, these original colonias still have unreliable access to sewers, clean water and electricity. Poorly constructed housing still lines rutted dirt roads. The stench from untreated waste in a nearby industrial canal permeates the air. Although the government has built elementary schools, their resources are strained and the education is poor. Later established colonias, some started as recently as July 2009, have virtually no utilities at all and the shelter is often little more discarded plywood nailed together.
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Our response to the invitation from the people of the colonias is through Casa Bugambilia, a community of volunteers dedicated to serving the residents of the colonias in the areas of medical care and education. Casa Bugambilia provides:
Shelter and medical care for the ill and abandoned to allow those persons medical treatment with dignity and reunification with their family and home community when possible.
Treatment for those presently untreated for diabetes, a disease that disproportionately impacts the colonias.
Education support, both in the classroom and financially, to provide the children of the colonias the surest path to escape poverty.
Construction and renovation of shelter to provide a healthy physical environment for living, healing and study.
Shelter and care for children with special needs who have been abandoned by their families or whose families lack the physical, emotional or financial resources to care for them.
