Give school & love to abandoned girls in Mexico

Dear Donor,

It is an old and wide held Mexican tradition to celebrate, in a lavish party, the 15^thbirthday of girls, when as a rite of passage, they become women. 

Puerta Abierta in a sense, is now a 15-year old girl, passing from childhood, to become a young adult organization, from the early years of energy and hope, to the present stage with more experience, lasting bonds among our girls, and within the extended Puerta Abierta family, including donors and benefactors.  And consequently, with larger projects and a look towards a better future. Trial and error efforts transformed into learning experiences, for the girls, house mothers, helpers, donors and the Board have shaped that “girl” organization into a “young woman”, with larger goals and expectations. 

We will invite you to donate today, as it is Bonus Day and whatever you give, GlobalGiving will match depending on the donation, so please help our girls as we are growing with a second children’s home opening in a few weeks form now.

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/family-and-school-for-9-abandoned-girls-in-mexico/ 

We have all learned that perseverance, tolerance to frustration, responsibility, commitment, and hard work are necessary to continue moving forward and get on to next stage. 

Our girls - young women, some now in college, make decisions every day, that shape their present and envisions a future that some time ago were only dreams.  But this is a continuing story, as love bonds, thankfulness and dreams continue to develop and grow, and with a stronger hope for the future.  All of us near the girls, in a sense, have turned into their accomplices for those dreams. 

So today, we want to celebrate these 15 years of Puerta Abierta, with a great passage-of-age party, for dreams come true, and many others to be fulfilled.  We thank you for being part of Puerta Abierta and for taking care of this beautiful growing young endeavor. 

Puerta Abierta

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MOTHER

To be a mother!  What a challenge is to be a mother, what a challenge is even to define it, let alone be one.  There are so many challenges and requisites, that we even ask ourselves:

Is it even possible to be perfect at it?  Mothers, like all of us human beings, are full of limitations. However, it is love that empowers them to overcome those limitations, and help their offspring grow with guidance and care.  

Being a mother is complicated, to say the least. If that is true for a natural mother, what a challenge it is for Lucy, our beloved mother.  She lovingly embraces our girls, while they need to slowly accept her, as a mother figure, with all its dimensions, as authority, slowly building trust with care and patience, and eventually, after some time, true love, respect and thankfulness.

Lucy´s mother role has been quite a challenge and in a single word, an Odyssey!!

Having formed her own family, she has a very clear  role as to what a mother needs and should  be, starting with love for her children, inspiring trust and security.  Having these as a foundation, she instills in our girls the desire to develop their intellectual skills, search for knowledge, ideals, a vision of their future, with strong values that are lived every day.

Today, as a result of this love and stimulation, care for their needs, and pursuit of opportunities, we have three college students.  Studying and working part-time, they are developing their professional skills while gaining self-esteem and security. All, while serving as a living example for their siblings following on their steps.  

Lucy has had her heart grabbed by her new PA daughters.  

It has been quite a journey, from an initial managerial job, to a full motherly involvement, loving each girl individually and all of them becoming her “heart-daughters”.  As all mother-daughter relationships, it is two-sided: Lucy dedicated in heart and soul to them, and all the girls admiring, trusting and loving her, as she has developed their emotional stability, security and self-esteem. 

This “mother-of-the heart” role poses a double challenge. The responsibility of a role model for the girls, so that in time, they are prepared to be mothers too.  Setting forth the role-model they could not have from their natural mother. The  second  challenge, is that with this example, they are able to build their own healthy and loving families, in spite of their troubled and painful past.  

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• web page