Casa
Indigena is a safe and sanitary community
center and transitional home for Indigenous
families who have migrated to the Leon, Guanajuato
area from several Mexican states including;
Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Michoacan. The adults have
few marketable skills, many families do not
speak Spanish, and they trek to population centers,
like Leon, principally to beg on the streets
and work at the jobs other Mexicans won't do.
This impoverished, nomadic life, forced on these
families, makes them the most vulnerable of
people in their own country.
Our
volunteers from the San Francisco bay Area
have recently helped to complete the first
phase of transitional housing at their site
in Leon, in addition to the classrooms,
bathroom/showers,
chapel and community room already constructed.
There are currently 21 families living
on site,
helping the staff of Casa Indigena and the
volunteers to create a model transitional
community for
other Mexican cities. |
