Tashirat foundation in Mexico

Dear Family and Friends,

This past month we celebrated the inauguration of our first ever computer lab, replete with 10 new computers, and a great central building here in Tashirat! This most amazing gift came to us in a very heart-warming way, through a donation from our friends Georgie and Jak, who are sponsors to three of our Tashirat children. As a surprise to Georgie for their 10th wedding anniversary, Jak decided to give something big to all of the children in Georgie’s name! Thank you Georgie and Jak for spreading your love to all of our children and students on your special day!



We have also just officially opened a health food cafe/juice bar and nutrition center! The café is also a kind of community space for our Learning Center. The Center continues to give daily yoga and meditation classes to the community, as well as courses. In the last weeks prior to the grand opening, the older children helped build herb and vegetable gardens around the café.



Most of our boys spend their afternoons riding bikes – it’s officially the big boy craze around Tashirat. Everywhere you look there are little boys on their bikes (or tricycles), often traveling in packs. They not only spend a lot of time riding them, but also decorating them. Each bike is outfitted with old CD’s stuck in the spokes and plastic bottles over the tires, in order to create the biggest “VROOM” sound possible!






Three of our teenagers, Cristian, Blanca and David, are now in high school and really enjoying their new social life and classes! Their only complaints are the many hours every night they spend doing homework and getting up at 5:30 in the morning for school! Otherwise, they couldn’t be happier with their exciting new school life. For many children in our area, making it to high school is considered quite an achievement. For our 18 year old Cristian, who’s been here 7 ½ years and was clinically labeled autistic before coming to Tashirat at age 11, it is a real triumph that he now attends this regular high school and has his first girlfriend, a really beautiful girl. Over these years he’s become a wonderful, normal, real “cool” kid.