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 Volunteer as a student in mexicoThis springtime break, like cache of other pupil, I went to Tijuana, Mexico. But alternatively of going to drink and do drugs, I went with 10 other Univ. Of Dayton students on a service trip. We were picked up at the airdrome by Sara Gomez from Tijuana Christian missionary post. She piled us into a van and drove us over the border from San Diego, describing in English language what we saw from our windows. “There are six one thousand children in the streets here,” Gomez said. “There are 700 women in Tijuana who need shelter every month.” We lived for a week inside the walls of an orphanhood home to 70 kid. During the day, we spent most of our time sanding, painting, and tiling rooms in a nearby women’s shelter. We also cleaned glass sherd from a sandbox that kid were playing in, and built a wall of tires and mud to stop a house from sliding off its foundation. We surprised a household of nine life in one room and told them we would build an extra room onto their house. After work, we returned to the orphanhood, where we spent our nighttime playing with joyful, energetic Mexican children. “The orphanhood gives the kid a opportunity to keep moving upward in a society that pushes downward against their person hopes and dreaming,” said Theo Wirtz, a alumnus student along on the trip. In going to Tijuana, I expected nothing more than a opportunity to leave the state and maybe pick up more Spanish. What I found was that Tijuana Christian missionary post is a place to flight your concern by doing useful work and life with kid who do not worry about their own job. Sharing their mentality on life was an option way to overcome one’s own emphasis and concern, while helping people in need. For More Info Sara Gomez, Tijuana Christian Mission, P.O. Box 85, National City, CA 91951-0058; 619-428-4638, fax 619-428-4073; , www.tijuanachristianmission.org. For additional short-term volunteer programs see the section of TransitionsAbroad.com. More Volunteer Abroad Articles |