This little nina was pretending to mop up the floor when Donna Quathamer, Founder of Hogar de Los Angeles, and I entered her classroom this morning. Oh my gosh! I would take her home in a heartbeat. You may remember me talking about this place from last year.
It began as a free daycare located in the heart of San Miguel - a safe haven for the kids of mothers who come from the outskirts of town to work, or sell their handmade folkart. Often these kids had been left at home ALONE, before Hogar de Los Angeles.
Donna had been asking the mothers for two years - "What is the one thing that might make your life better?" Consistently she was told, "A safe place for my babies. Someone to care for them while I work."
Hogar de Los Angeles is indeed that, and so much more. Besides caring for the kids up to age 5, they have an after school program for the olders ones - including help with homework! Eveyone receives free medical care right there on site provided by one of two (married) wonderful Mexican doctors who "wanted to give back to their community." Hogar de Los Angeles also helps construct bathrooms for those who don't have one, it helps with transportation as well as provides summer camp for the olders kids.
Everything done at 'Hogar' is done on a co-oporative basis. Everyone helps - each mother volunteers a certain amoutn of her time. Everyones' diginity is respected and maintained.
Check it out!!! www.youareanangel.org Change a life. Be an angel!
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