nonprofit organization on US-Mexico border, promoting progress
Adult learners cluster around a single computer. Your donation will promote the use of technology.
$300 –Supplies one computer for the Palomas Community Learning Center. This will help teach computer skills to adults, opening the rich world of technology to the town’s population. By utilizing refurbished computers, we are able to stretch your donation dollar.
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Border Partners produced this solar water heater, a device offering great utility to residents of Palomas.
at a family’s home. Many Palomas homes don’t have hot water due to fuel expense. This water heater, made in Palomas, will provide hot water year-round, fueled with free power from the bountiful desert sun. This will augment public health by increasing hygiene–one family at a time. It also provides potential income to the producers, thereby stimulating the local economy and improving the quality of life by providing employment.
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Your donation will educate school children about agriculture and feed them, too.
$150 –Sponsors a year-round garden at a Palomas school. This will teach the children the process of growing food and also provide fresh, nutritious vegetables and fruits for their lunches.
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$100 –Sponsors a year-round garden for one family to grow fresh vegetables and fruits to improve their diet. The package includes all the materials and services of the winter garden package [lettuce, broccoli, carrot, spinach, chard, radish, kale and pea seeds] with the addition of shade cloth to protect tender plants from the extreme desert summer sun and an expanded variety of seeds.
Click here to purchase a year-round garden.
$50 –Hires a teacher for five community education sessions at the Community Learning Center. Break cycles of poverty and support ongoing adult education on a relevant topic such as
basic math,
accounting,
computer skills,
English or
parenting skills.
Click here to hire a teacher as a gift
$50 –Establishes a winter garden for one family to grow fresh vegetables: purchasing
Click here to purchase this gift of a garden
$30 –Sponsors three free aerobics classes open to the community and lead by a local teacher. Because of poor diets, many people in Palomas need more exercise to improve health.
To purchase this gift of three aerobics classes, click here.
$25 –Provides one week of food supplementation to the school lunch program at Ford Primary School (grades 1-6), adding fresh vegetables, cheese and eggs to their government-supplied ration.
Click here to purchase this gift of food for school children