At the Tree of Life Children's Home we have over 100 children living at our home in the Colonia Lomas del Poleo of Cd.
Juarez, Mexico. This is a farm type, family oriented home for children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected.
We accept children from parents who need help and we are also officially recognized by DIF, the Mexican Social
Services, and have been chosen by DIF to be their "Centro de Transferencia." Under this program we receive all the
children over the age of 6 picked up by the local, state and federal police in Cd. Juarez. We give them love and a home
until the situation with their family is resolved.
At the home we offer various programs for the children both educational and extracurricular. We are able to send the
children with proper documentation to the local public schools. We also have a teacher who comes to the orphanage 3
days a week to offer tutoring and classes to the children who are behind in their studies. We also offer music, English as a
second language, sewing, and agricultural classes. Besides vocational and educational classes, we also hold daily
devotionals with the children, weekly church services, bible studies, discipleship class, and worship.
In March of 2005, the Mexican government awarded us the use of a building in downtown Juarez located on the streets of
Bolivia and Coyoacan. We call it the Bolivia Building. At this location we give refuge to all minors over the age of 6
(children 6 or under go straight to the government children's home) who are found to be illegal in the United States by the
US Immigration, and are returned to Mexico through Juarez. We also receive illegal minors found in Mexico by the
Mexican Immigration Service who come from Central and South America. Over the past two years we have helped over
6,000 minors! We are in the process of trying to obtain a grant to hire a counselor for these minors to talk with their
families, and in conjunction with the government, try to get some of them entered into our educational and other programs
and to live with us here at the Home. Currently, these minors are just being returned by the Mexican Government to the
same economically impared and impoverished areas that had pushed them to try and get into the United and improve their
lives. Sometimes, we see the same minors again at our facility. The director of DIF has told us that it is a great idea and
that they will help us in any way they can.
