Our Mission

Since 2010, AMISTAD CANADA has been dedicated to improving the lives of people in need through Projects focused on health and education. Our projects are in Mexico.

AMISTAD CANADA will appeal to:

- Canadians who feel a strong connection to Mexico because they are residents or snowbirds and want to respond to the many Mexicans who have welcomed them into their country;

- Canadians whose work and personal lives relate to our program activities;

- Canadians with personal and family ties to Latin America;

- And, of course, we hope it will appeal to all Canadians who are committed to helping people in need wherever they are.

About AMISTAD CANADA

AMISTAD CANADA currently works with 16 'asociacíones civiles' (non-profit charities) across several Mexican states.

With LA BIBLIOTECA de SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, we support scholarships, free classes and books for children and youth.

With CAMINOS DE AGUA, we support rainwater catchment systems – and related training – for rural communities without a safe supply of groundwater.

With LA CATALINA FOUNDATION we support supplemental education and scholarships to children, teens and young adults in and around La Manzanilla, Jalisco.

With the DON DIEGO FOUNDATION, we support supplemental education to children and youth in a rural community in San Miguel de Allende.

With LA ESCUELA DE EDUCACION ESPECIAL DE SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, we help to fund scholarships that support education for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

With FEED THE HUNGRY we sponsor school kitchens, thereby helping FTH deliver balanced meals, nutrition education, and ancillary programs to hungry children in economically disadvantaged communities around San Miguel de Allende.

With IXIM (a Mayan word for corn), we support hygiene and nutrition education, basic agricultural training and childrens' anemia testing in three indigenous villages in Chiapas.

With JÓVENES ADELANTE we provide scholarships, computers and other services to qualified students in San Miguel de Allende who seek a university education.

With MUJERES EN CAMBIO we provide scholarships and support to girls and young women in the poor rural communities around San Miguel de Allende.

With OPERA SAN MIGUEL we provide competition prizes to help promising young Mexican singers develop their skills, obtain mentoring and seek performance opportunities.

With PATRONATO PRO NIÑOS, we support the salaries of doctors, dentists and drivers who staff mobile medical/dental clinics that care to children in rural areas of San Miguel.

With PROMUSICA de San Miguel de Allende, we support musical training for players in a Youth Orchestra.

With PROGRAMA PRO NIÑOS INCAPACITADOS DEL LAGO we provide counseling and financial help to poor Mexican families in the Lake Chapala area of Jalisco who have children with serious disabilities or life threatening illnesses.

With SOME (So Other May Eat) we contribute to a weekly healthy lunch program for poor senior citizens in San Miguel de Allende; they also receive medical counselling.

With UN NEUVO AMANACER we support a special education school in La Crucecita, Bahias de Huatulco, Oaxaca.

And, with TEPOZ ROSA, we support ovarian and cervical cancer screening clinics in Tepotzlan, Morelos.