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Unusual hairstyles highlight an exposition at a local beauty college. The volunteers are students and graduates recruited through our international strategic alliance with Milagro de Volar, A.C. Watch our video: “Hair Brigade”.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
The best cure for poverty is gainful employment, and Miracle Airlift has a vocational training program that’s a proven success. Frequently, very talented students are also the poorest. It’s sad when a deserving student drops out of school because they can’t pay their tuition. $87 monthly puts a deserving student through Beauty College in 18 months, enabling her to overcome poverty and support her family. Help us change lives. If you are able to individually sponsor a student, please contact us to earmark your automatic monthly donation.
Students at beauty college are usually women, and we want to balance our program with training in industrial welding for men. We need to grow some more to be able to do that. The greatest charitable work is teaching people to help themselves, so please donate to teach people the skills needed to support their families, at home in Mexico. No donation is too small.
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SHELTER HOME
A project very close to the hearts of our volunteers, is to help aged or infirm people without a home or family to care for them. A few photos in this gallery show some work we did on earlier projects, but now we have a much bigger opportunity. Our strategic ally Milagro de Volar A.C. recently acquired some land near Tecate. It’s an area of 11,390 square meters (2.814 Acres) which is large enough to build an ample shelter home. Our plan includes dormitories with toilets and showers, kitchen and dining area, a laundry, covered and roofless patio areas, a medical clinic, offices and a parking lot. Construction, staffing, and operation of the home will be full time work for some Milagro de Volar volunteers. Many of them are excited about this project, and some of them headed out to see the new property. Equipped with shovels and pick-axes, they thought they would clear away the brush. As you can see, they underestimated the job! We got some satisfaction by locating the concrete corner markers, and we had a pretty good barbecue! Stay tuned, we’re going to have a fundraiser before ground-breaking and will post updates. Don’t wait, please donate now to help us get started!
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Watch “To Grandma With Love“, and please sign up for an automatic monthly donation to help build this Shelter Home.
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MEDICAL BRIGADE
Our volunteer medical team of 3 physicians and nursing staff, work in 2 medical offices plus field clinics. We are amazed and grateful for these wonderful Mexican volunteers. They are busy professionals, yet they are happy to donate their time. Local field clinics also serve as “dress rehearsals” where we gain experience to face a serious challenge. People in specific remote areas are afflicted with a fatal endemic disease. A mining town in the Sierra Madre mountains suffered in silence for a century. Now we know why! Medical Brigade is the keystone of our plan for remote areas, and your donation will help save lives. To learn more about the medical situation and our plan to combat it, scroll down to “REMOTE AREA”.
REMOTE AREA – Sierra Madre Occidental Metal mining is hazardous to health. This town is plagued with cancers and several people requested outside help. We need to grow some more before we can commit to that, but they’re right, lung cancer in miners is a known occupational health issue, and it’s preventable. The whole story is posted at Death Sentence. We could be saving lives here and at mines throughout Mexico, if only we had a capable airplane. The problems of accessibility to these remote mountain mining towns, and the need for a capable airplane, are discussed in detail on the OVERVIEW page. Please help us get an airplane with “the right stuff” to do this work. You may use the contact page to earmark your donation for the airplane. Every donation helps.
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Two gallery photos (above) show a dirt airstrip at the edge of town. Airstrips like this serve mining towns all over Mexico. Enjoy our scenic mountain video, “Sierra Madre” in HD.
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“Shadow People” is a grim video, maybe shocking to some viewers, but definitely worth seeing at least once.
HOMELESS
“El Bordo” is an ever changing community of disenfranchised people. This area is a section of the Tijuana River, not far from the U.S. border. Here, people sleep in nooks beneath the bridges and in tunnels within the bridge structure. A little farther downstream, winter storms have caused the river to deposit a lot of silt. People use the sand bar to pitch makeshift tents, as you will see in the video. About 9 months after the government first took notice of our humanitarian activity, all the people were rounded up and transported to rehab facilities. After which they bulldozed the place, taking out huge piles of sand and rubble. That probably will save some people from drowning, as the river is big and fast in the rainy season. We expect it’s only a matter of time until “El Bordo” will be inhabited again.
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REBUILDING RENACER
Renacer is a small community church in the hills above Tijuana. It was built of plywood on a concrete slab. A windstorm knocked the building down flat, and the little community was in despair about how to rebuild their church. Miracle Airlift stepped up and provided construction materials, and our strategic ally Milagro de Volar provided volunteer workers. Reconstruction started by digging deep and pouring a steel reinforced concrete foundation around the perimeter of the existing cement slab. The walls were built of concrete blocks reinforced with steel bars. But we were running out of money, and the roof had to be improvised. Then came the miracle. Our wonderful supporters in the Comunidad Cristiana of Spokane Valley, Washington donated money to build the roof! We are very grateful to them, and the volunteers of Milagro de Volar. Many Thanks!
