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WHAT WE DO:
For 6 years Volunteers Without Limits has served the San Felipe community and currently serves 26 disabled children and 11 disabled adults. We are the only organization in the community that provides much needed services for the families. There are no government support programs. We provide diapers, Ensure, food, wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes and help with medications, Dr. visits, lab tests, therapies, and transportation to exams 2 hours away. There is no childcare available for a single mom with a disabled child so working is extremely difficult provided they can even find work. If a mom is employed the average wage would be approximately $75 per week. Some anti-convulsion medications are as high as $200 per month. They NEED our help.
THE INSPIRATION BEHIND VOLUNTEERS WITHOUT LIMITS
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Paty Orozco (our President) had a dream a month before her
daughter was born. In her dream she was surrounded by people with disabilities
and she was helping them. The dream upset her a lot. Paty did not have much
exposure to people with disabilities and she didn’t know what to make of the
dream. A month later her beautiful daughter Lupita was born. Lupita is
diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus.
Paty quickly learned there was no help for families with
disabilities so she decided to help her daughter and other families with
disabled children in any way she could. She started out with her friends
selling tamales and sodas on street corners to raise money.
Volunteers Without Limits also operates a small thrift store which offers very inexpensive clothes and household items to those that can afford them. For those that cannot afford them, we provide clothes, shoes, jackets, blankets, fans, beds and/or whatever we can to help those in need in the community.
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KO HAMBRE (Knock Out Hunger) - Volunteers Without Limits also hosts the KO Hambre program and
currently cooks and delivers food to approximately 100 homebound people each day Mon-Fri and serve about 10-12 people off the street. For most, this is their only meal of the day. We deliver to the elderly, disabled, sick, and single mothers with small children. It is our version of Meals on Wheels. Down here it is different than in the states. We don't have companies and grocery stores etc. that donate food. We have to purchase our food from a wholesale distributor. The KO was chosen in memory of Kuchy Sanchez and Olivia Valdez who tirelessly helped so many people in the community.
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Please visit our galleries here, on our FB page and our website to see more of what we do!
Volunteers Without Limits
is seeking $48,800
$1500 x 12 months = $18,000 to be used to continue to buy food and deliver 26,000 meals to the homebound.
$900 x 12 months = $10,800 = 1 year of operational costs (rent, electric, gas, phone, water, propane)
$10,000 to purchase a dependable, reliable and more
efficient enclosed delivery vehicle. This will help ensure the quality and
safety of the food and will also help us to pick up donated items and provide
other transportation.
$10,000 for kitchen equipment (range, exhaust hood, freezer, work tables and shelving)
OUR HISTORY
VSL/VWL is a Mexico registered Asociacion Civil (non-profit) located in San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. We originally started in 2009 as Paso a Pasito (an organization to help disabled children and their families) and took over the San Felipe Food Bank A.C. and brought both organizations together to form Voluntarios Sin Limites. Volunteers Without Limits has a Mexican President - Paty Orozco and a Mexican board. There are several Americans and Canadians that are mentors, facilitators, and volunteers and are heavily involved in the organization.
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Our organization is volunteer and donation based. We have no administrative salaries and our operational costs (rent, electric, propane, gas, phone etc) is paid for out of donations we receive. Our operational costs are approximately $900 per month.
San Felipe is a small fishing village located two hours south of the California border. In 2003-2008 San Felipe was becoming a booming tourist and development area. In 2008 when the economic problems hit in the U.S., we got hit hard in San Felipe. Tourism and development virtually stopped and a lot of people were left with little or no work. Even with work, the minimum wage in Mexico is less than $6 a day.
This year, in order to save the Vaquita (the worlds smallest porpoise) from extinction, the government has implemented a 2 year fishing ban in the area (only place the Vaquita exists in the world) which left more than 1000 families without work. Some were compensated by the government but there are still about 600 families affected!
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THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATIONS
ON THE COMMUNITY!
As I mentioned above, our community is hurting. The elderly and
disabled are really forgotten. In a lot of cases the meal that we provide will
be the only food they have to eat that day. We currently have a waiting list
for people who need food but we just do not have the funds to provide them with
meals.
Having the kitchen equipment will give us the ability to provide
even more meals as we grow and give us the ability to prepare the meals safely
and efficiently.
Our current delivery vehicle is a 1990 1 ton Toyota flatbed dually. It has seen better days. This summer it has
been 110 degrees with high humidity at different times and we are driving
around for 3 hours with food bouncing around in the back of the truck. We need
to eliminate the health risks of that. Plus, having a van will give us the
ability to pick up donations in the U.S when necessary. We currently have
diapers, wheelchairs, food, clothes etc. in different places and we need to be
able to go get them or we lose them.
Someone wise once said “Feed the hungry, clothe the poor and visit the sick”! We are here to serve!
OUR FUTURE VISION:
Create childcare and job opportunities for the
parents of disabled children
We currently had the equipment donated to open a
juice/smoothie bar to help us become more self-supporting and sustainable. We
hope to get to a point where we can provide fresh juices to the elderly and
disabled to provide a better nutritional option than chemically laden
nutritional drinks.
Create a community garden large enough to
provide food for the kitchen, the juice bar and to teach the community
sustainable gardening skills.
Create a safe house for new mothers with
disabled children to provide support to help with the challenging first year.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO VISIT OUR CAMPAIGN. PLEASE SHARE IT
WITH ANYONE AND EVERYONE YOU CAN. WE NEVER KNOW WHO IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO
HELP! THANK YOU AGAIN IN ADVANCE!