Hello, my name is Ana Rodriguez, I live in Cerro Azul. I am the Corazón Community Coordinator for the Tecate communities.  I joined the Corazón family as a volunteer in 2009; over the past 12 years, I have been working on construction and community leadership programs and activities.  In 2019, after many years of volunteering with Corazón, I was offered a full-time position at Corazón. It is rewarding to serve communities in Tecate and work alongside Corazón 's U.S. volunteers.

We have all been through them – the worst days. Days we could not go to Mexico to serve the poor, due to weather, border conditions, regional unrest, financial instability. For whatever reason, all we could do was sit at home, knowing that the poverty-stricken had it a thousand times worse than we did.

Your support is powerful!

For the last several weeks, we have brought you stories of families trying to survive during the pandemic. Here are a few stories about the difference that you have made in the lives of the struggling poor families we serve:

We continue to pray for the health and safety of you and your family as the Corona virus continues to infect people locally and around the world.  This week Corazon staff member, Erika Zaragoza, reports how it is affecting our members in Tijuana. 

We pray that you and your families are healthy and continue to be safe during these unconventional times.

Through your support, we assisted sixteen families where members have lost their jobs and are in immediate need of assistance for food and medicine. Corazon will provide between $50 and $100 per family this week, depending on family size, to help provide food and health care expenses.

Our Mexican staff is actively reaching out to the Corazon communities, and there are many that still need financial assistance to bring immediate aid and comfort to their families. Please share this letter with family and friends and know that any contribution will be used to impact families in Mexico directly.

Through this letter, I would like to tell you that our Nuevo Milenio community, as everywhere, is experiencing an economic crisis. Many of the participants of Corazón are unemployed, due to the government's order to close most non-essential sources of work.

Our staff in Mexico continues to monitor how our communities and families are holding up during the lock-down, and we will continue to identify more families for assistance as needs warrant. We thank all of you who have donated to make this assistance possible.

I would like to thank all of you for helping to keep our mission at Corazón moving forward in the face of this worldwide challenge. 

We hope and pray that all of you and your families are safe and healthy, and we would like to share with you some information concerning our Corazón families and communities in Tijuana & Tecate, México.