By CAROLINE BRENNAN Created in 2004 to help troubled youth in Mexico’s marginal and troubled communities, “Jóvenes Constructores de la Comunidad” (JCC) is a nonprofit that matches Mexican youth from abusive homes with construction projects in their respective communities in a effort to improve their family environments. The JCC successful model helps Mexican youths who have little formal schooling and
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Photo: Enlace Judio By CAROLINE BRENNAN Mexico rich in its culture and heritage, is also rich in its immigrant population who were welcomed to its shores from all over the world. One significant immigrant group was that of Jewish families, fleeing persecution and strife in their homelands, many of whom who sought refuge in Mexico in the 1940s to start
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN Anna López Morton, 24 years old, is an aspiring young entrepreneur currently creating and selling her especially designed, Mexican-themed T-shirts on her Instagram page, with 40 percent of the proceeds going to help children with Down syndrome in Mexico City through the Fundación Mosáico Down (FMD). López Morton’s colorful T-shirts feature maps of Mexico, piñatas, sombreros and chili
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN It was after the devastating loss of her brother to cancer in 2013 that Mariana Hernández Téllez created the organization Antes de Partir. Her brother’s battle with the disease brought Hernández Téllez to the realization that Mexico was lacking the necessary resources for the most economically challenged and vulnerable children in society, those suffering with terminal cancer.
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN Rosi Orozco grew up in a “loving family” where she said she “received so many blessings.” And it was this fortunate personal history that she said embedded in her a sense of giving back to the community. For the past 16 years, Orozco has devoted her time and energy to an afflicted segment of society that has
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By CAROLINE BRENNAN The Parroquia Francesa Cristo Resucitado y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, a Catholic church located on Avenida Horacio in Mexico City’s bucolic suburb of Polanco, is well known in the area for being a place of worship, full of spirituality, peace and faith. Run by monks from the French religious order the Community of Saint John, the Parroquia,
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