Buckner in Mexico

NGO Status:
Buckner officially formed its NGO in April 2008 under the name “Familias y Niños Buckner A.C.”

Program Sites:
Los Mochis, Sinaloa; San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato; Cuernavaca, Morelos; Mexico City; Oaxaca, Oaxaca; Arcelia, Guerrero; Juarez, Chihuahua; Camargo, Tamaulipas; Naco, Sonora; Tecate, Baja California and Tijuana, Baja California.

History:
In August 2007, Buckner began exploring ministry opportunities in the Mexico interior, as well as along the northern Mexico border with the United States. Buckner has been made aware of an opportunity in Arcelia, Guerrero to help start an orphanage in collaboration with a local donor and two Dallas churches. During the last quarter of 2007, more doors for ministry opportunities have also opened in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Sinaloa, Camargo, Juarez, Nogales and Tijuana/Tecate.

Buckner services and country support include:

• On-going humanitarian aid and Shoes for Orphan Souls.
• On-going mission trips throughout the year ministering to the children in orphanages in Arcelia, Guerrero; Mexico City; Juarez, Chihuahua; Camargo, Tamaulipas; Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas; Naco, Sonora; Tecate, Baja California and Tijuana, Baja California.
• Volunteer ministry opportunities with at-risk children through community centers and feeding programs in Oaxaca, Oaxaca; Mexico City; San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato and Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Also, provide job skill training, after school programs and parenting classes in these community centers.
• Pilot foster care program in collaboration with a Mexico City church for children born in prison, abandoned children and babies saved from abortion through the ministry of a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
• Water purification projects and development of micro enterprises (green houses) with indigenous people groups. 
• Build and help develop day care program for at-risk children of single working moms in Juarez.
• You can view a summary of Mexico interior projects or Mexico border projects online or download the most current complete list of all Mexico mission projects.

You can provide change in Russia in 2008 by helping to:

• Increase awareness of needs of Latvian children and families by going on a mission trip with Buckner
• Conducting sports camps.
• Develop local Latvian support through donor support and volunteerism.
• Develop possibility of a Latvian semi-professional basketball team to play a U.S. university basketball team.
• Provide interns and finances to assist Pastor Sergey at the Naval Port Day Center.

Country Information

• Location: Bordering countries are
Belize 250 km, Guatemala 962 km,
and the United States with the largest
border of 3,141 km.

• Size: slightly less than three times
the size of Texas

• Population: 108,700,891

• HIV/AIDS Population: 160,000
(2003 est.)

• Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 60%,
Amerindian or predominantly
Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%

• Languages: Spanish, various Mayan,
Nahuatl and 286 other regional
Idigenous languages

• Religions: Roman Catholic 76.5%,
Protestant 6.3%, other .3%, unspeci-
fied 13.8%, none 3.1%. While most
Mexicans profess the Roman Catholic
faith, a number of indigenous people
include strong pre-Hispanic Mayan
elements in their religion (syncretism).

• Literacy: 91%, male: 92.4%, female:
89.6% In some regions such as
Northern Chiapas, close to 50% of
adults are functionally illiterate.
Population below poverty line:
35.5%

• Government: federal republic

• Capital: Mexico City

• Administrative divisions: 31 state

Contact Information
Buckner International
Global Initiatives
Dexton Shores
Dshores@buckner.org
210-771-2904

Links
Global Initiatives
Buckner.org/Change

Mission Trips
ItsYourMission.com