Child Protection Mexico Project #9451

Give school & love to abandoned girls in Mexico

by Puerta Abierta IAP

Give school & love to abandoned girls in Mexico

Project Report | Feb 21, 2018
Magic Wand

By Simona Fontana | Girls Coordinator

Belen lighting a candle

THE MAGIC WAND

“If you had a magic wand what would you do Belen?”

“Well…I would like lots of pencils and a family forever, a family to live happy and loved for the rest of my life.”

Wishes come true and Belen found her mom and daddy , they are Italian and they have been waiting for their little girl for five years.

Hello dear donor,

How are you? I have great news: one of our girls has been adopted, her name is Belen and this Christmas she asked for a family. Just a few weeks later we received the notice that our social services had found an overseas family for Belen.

Actually we were shocked, as you know here in Puerta Abierta WE ARE the family of our little girls, and besides it never happens that someone wants to adopt a girl who is nine years old. Usually they want little babies, which we understand and respect, therefore our heart was full of joy when they gave us this wonderful news.

“To adopt “ means “to desire”, to adopt means to find whom you were looking for: your soulmate.

And that’s what happened to Belen, this is her happy ending story. This was Belen’s fairy-tale.

Everything sounds perfect until here right? Yes, I agree with you; but the point is that thanks to you, thanks to your help and kindness Belen, just like the other girls living in Puerta Abierta, is not leaving an orphanage without love and care, but she’s going away from a warm little house full of love and warm feelings. A little house called Puerta Abierta, where our children live like sisters and where they learn to protect each other and to visualize their life together. And then one day Belen’s desire comes true. So she’s happy and their parents too, and so are we but.. please take a breath and close your eyes. IMAGINE YOU ARE ONE OF OUR GIRLS. Your name is Ximena and you are ten years old. You have been living in Puerta Abierta for the last two years and Belen is your best friend. You are living with us because your adoptive mother didn’t want you anymore and “returned you” like a box to the social services. This is your story, at the end of the day you’re happy because in Puerta Abierta you have found love and Belen. But now she’s going away, now she’s been adopted, now she’s going to live in Italy and she’s happy… so you have to smile to her and pretend to be excited about her new life. But your heart is broken, once again. Please dear donor, open your eyes.

How do you feel? Because this is a real story, the real story of Belen and Ximena. Now we have to deal with the sadness of Xime (like we use to call her) and try to find a light in her in order to see her calm and in peace.

We did a good-bye party four days ago to say good-bye to Belen; we thought a lot about how to organize it and then we decided to start finding that light that Xime lost because of Belen’s adoption. So we lit a lot of candles, and we all said something to Belen; everyone just said a word or just smiled. Then we made an energy circle to support Belen and to support us: we desire you all the best Belen but we will miss you, we will miss you a lot little princess.

Dear donor, like you may imagine soon a new girl will start living with us (of course we will tell you everything about her in the next report) and your support will be really important like always in order for her to have the same opportunities you gave, and are giving, to the other children of Puerta Abierta.

Now, to be honest, we all need to learn to live without our Belen, but we are happy and proud of her; we are all looking forward to eating her first home-made Italian pasta!!

With love

CIAO

Puerta Abierta IAP

Been & Xime goodbyes

Links:

Web Page

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Nov 28, 2017
IMAGINE

By Simona Fontana | Home Coordinator

Smiling

Hey there,

How are you? Today I would like to play a game with you! Are you ready?

So …let’s start! As you know, today is Giving Tuesday. The day to give. However, I’m not here only to ask for money. I don’t want, dear donor, just to tell you what to do and why to do it. I really want to play a game: we want us to IMAGINE together. Do you want to work with me for a better world? If you are reading these few lines, I’m sure it is so.

Well, here in Puerta Abierta we started to dream about 13 years ago and ever since we have never stopped. Since then, we have loved many little Mexican girls; some of them have already grown into women, wonderful women whom thanks to you are reaching their dreams. Others are growing up with difficulty and pain but are still believing that things can change for better.

Personally I think Giving Tuesday is a day in which people should imagine all together how to find a way to help someone else. Because if all the world acted like a chain, imagining to being close to every other person living on the earth probably everything would be easier.

Please, dear donor, start playing with me: IMAGINE!!!!

Imagine: what would happen if today you tried to smile to the stranger crossing the street?

What would happen if you shared your meal with the homeless living on the corner of your house? What would happen if you tried to smile to the difficulties instead of being angry all day long?

What would happen if you thought that YOU can REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Dear donor, positive thinking is the element that, together with your help, has helped us to keep on going with this life project called Puerta Abierta IAP; therefore today I just want you to imagine the sun, the light, love and energy. I just want you to live in a different way today.

Here in Puerta Abierta we want to send you our blessings and our positive energy; we would like to know you’re having a wonderful day. We decided to spend this giving Tuesday trying to give you back all that you have given us in the past. So … we would like to ask you: HOW DO YOU FEEL? HOW IS YOUR LIFE?

If we just could meet it would be easier, because we would offer you a piece of chocolate cake and a hot coffee, and then we would invite you to sit on our little sofa and we would listen to you, to your words and your silences. But please IMAGINE being here with us (please google chocolate abuelita, it is the most famous and yummy here in Mexico.. smells like cinnamon.. we’re cooking this chocolate for you!)

Close your eyes dear donor, you’re here with us. Close your eyes dear donor, and then if you have time to do it, check out our photos on global giving: we’re sure we will steal you a smile !!!

We are just twelve lovely girls living in a children´s home and dreaming of building our life out of education and love. We just want to give voice to those people – you donors – who every day help us to fly in the adventure of life. That’s way this time we want to make a challenge and see if we can reach you in some way: please write us a letter, just saying hello or even use us as your secret diary. We will be really pleased and delighted to read about you and to answer you ..You can tell us anything you want, we will take care of your feelings and we will try to make you smile. If you want us to help you, and if you want to keep in touch with us please write through our web page

www.puerta-abierta.org

We will never share your feelings and your thoughts, we will just try to GIVE YOU BACK all that you have done for us day by day.

That’s all for now, go out and LIVE. We will be waiting for your emails.

With all our love

Puerta Abierta IAP

Links:

Childrens home

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Aug 17, 2017
Do you know our Triplets?

By Connie Duran Robertson | Board Member

Trillis

Hi,

We are sure by now you know the triplets at our children’s home! You have been generous with them and we know you would like to get to know them better.

María, Angeles and Lupis are almost 17, María and Angeles are identical twins and Lupis is physically very different. This year we had to move them to a new High School as María and Angeles need to be independent. They are so close that sometimes it seems as one can't survive without the other. They have not found their own identity and their therapist suggested that we enrolled them in different high schools. Above that, Puerta Abierta has the policy of giving them the opportunity to attend a High School that will assure them also a technical degree, this is possible in México and will give them new tools to become self-sufficient and independent.

It’s a challenge as they loved their old school, specially María, who strongly opposed to the idea last year. After a lot of thought and talks with the 3 of them they have come to the conclusion that this is a new opportunity for them!
Lupis choose gastronomy as her technical degree, Angeles IT and María administration. It gave them a apportunity to think about their future and to choose what they think they will like to do as a university degree later on.
It's now been 2 weeks since they started school and I can tell you that Lupis and Angeles are enjoining this new experience. María as teenager won´t admit that she is happy but we can see and hear that she is very happy. It always surprises us how easily children adapt and how resilient they are.

Your generous donation over this years has helped us to give them the possibilty to reach High School and have the knowledge to attend this new school. You are giving a huge opportunity not only with an education of good quality but a loving family, so thanks to you donor for being part of the education of our girls. Its been amazing to be so close to them and be part of their development with the challenges it has, they have a very special energy among the 3 and they are building their future now.

Links:

Organization web page

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