The Padre Luis Jayme International Outreach Program

Serving our neighbors in Mexico by providing food, clothing and emergency supplies to the poor and sick, while offering crisis assistance in the wake of natural disasters. A member of Father Joe's Villages.

Why do we exist?

Father Joe’s Villages® ( http://www.fatherjoesvillages.org ) provides more than $1 million in supplies annually to help the poor, homeless and victims of disaster in Mexico and Latin American countries. This effort is in keeping with our Mission – Feeding the Hungry, Clothing the Naked, Sheltering the Homeless, Healing the Sick…With Dignity.

Although Father Joe’s Villages formally established the Padre Luis Jayme International Outreach in 1998, St. Vincent de Paul Village began providing aid to the poor in Mexico in 1983. This effort has helped thousands of our neighbors in need in Mexico.

Through the Villages’ Padre Luis Jayme International Outreach, material goods such as blankets, bulk food, medical supplies, clothing and toys are distributed to missions, orphanages and other Mexican assistance groups working directly with the poor. A large part of this aid is provided to people in need in Tijuana, a much-beleaguered urban area in one of the poorest areas on our continent.

What have you accomplished?

One of the Villages’ first international aid efforts came in 1985, when a catastrophic earthquake claimed 10,000 lives, left 50,000 injured and more than 100,000 homeless in Mexico City. Father Joe Carroll, President of Father Joe’s Villages as well as Padre Luis Jayme International Outreach, found an innovative way to help by operating a water factory that had been closed. With clean drinking water in short supply after the earthquake, the reopened factory distributed free bottles of water, helping to save lives and provide 50 jobs to the poor. The Outreach also purchased sewing machines and established a co-op that provided jobs and inexpensive clothing to the victims of the earthquake.

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