As the school year draws to a close in Puerto Vallarta, the board members from Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation must shift gears quickly and begin gathering funds for the next school year, which starts in mid-August.
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Caring for MORE!
Children’s Shelter of Hope Foundation is happy to announce that we are once again expanding our efforts and support of children in need in the Puerto Vallarta area. Effective immediately we are reinstating our monthly donations to Pasitos de Luz by paying the salary for one of their special education teachers. Pasitos is an amazing daycare center that provides vital services, at no charge, to children from low income families with Continue reading “Caring for MORE!”
A New SOS Request
We have recently been inundated with requests for support through the Sendero’ SOS (Sponsor One Student) educational scholarship program. The Sendero Board of Directors each year identifies motivated, dedicated, and serious students in the Bay of Banderas area, enrolled in secondario (middle school), prepa (high school) or a university program, but who are in danger of dropping out of school for financial reasons. The goal is to “rescue” these students by offering financial support; including enrollment and tuition expenses, transportation expenses, books, uniforms, shoes, backpacks, Continue reading “A New SOS Request”
A SPLASH of an Adventure
by Jada Garber
In March I was lucky enough to travel down to Puerto Vallarta with over 125 lbs. of puzzles, toothpaste, coloring books, and crayons for children at Children’s Foundation of Hope’s projects; as well as over $100 worth of GREAT socks donated by Smartwool. My Aunt, Chris Amo, and my mother, Susan Solomon, had prepared me for quite the adventure.
In The Shoe Fairy in Puerto Vallarta
by Pauline Wallis
I remember the tooth fairy because I put a tooth under my pillow at night and the next morning, it was replaced with 25 cents. I remember the tooth fairy because my children put a tooth under their pillow at night and the next morning, it was replaced with 1 dollar. But I do not remember the shoe fairy—and there is a shoe fairy in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
A family from Idaho vacations here for a week or two in February. They stay at a hotel on the beach Continue reading “The Shoe Fairy in Puerto Vallarta”