A Mexican Orphanage in Need

My name is Marisa Godoy. When I was 23 I opened an all eco-friendly (green), high quality, privately funded orphanage in Mexico with a small staff of other twenty-somethings. In the last 5 years, we have taken in all the children in the central state of Morelos that have been lost in the government’s broken orphanage system because they are either above the preferred age for adoption, are mentally/emotionally/physically handicapped, or have siblings who have no chance of being adopted as a family.

We are now opening a school to meet the needs of the severely impoverished children in the surrounding communities as well as our orphaned children. The community children who need this school have not only been going without an education, they also do not have water for bathing/washing and are all extremely malnourished. In our “Ixaya” School, these children can receive everything they need to flourish and break the cycle of extreme poverty, illness, abuse, alcoholism and ignorance - just like in our orphanage - yet they will be day students who will go home at night to sleep with their families. Lives can be transformed and dreams realized!
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