Free Medical Clinic, Kitchen, and Day Care

Our first medical clinic --we've come a long ways!	Volunteer Samantha, serving the children meals.

Christmas Banquet

Part of the 3000-person crowd lining up to receive Christmas dinner .	Chris cooking chicken Christmas morning, with help from assistants Joan and Eman.

This special meal is not the usual soup-kitchen menu, but a delicious and nutritious all-you-can-eat chicken dinner prepared by three of the city’s top restaurants. We serve up close to one ton of chicken, beans, rice, tortillas and drinks to the multitude of families gathered together for this annual charitable happening.

Joan hard at work on the serving line.	Families enjoying their Christmas meal.

Local television, covering the event, interviewed a wheelchair-bound beneficiary of a free meal, who was heard to comment: "It is not only the food, or the drinks or the entertainment; it is the love that you feel from these people!" For the members of Proyecto Refugio here in Guadalajara, this comment meant that we are achieving our goal.

Local TV filming Joan, wife of project manager Chris, serving one of the 3,000 plates served that day.	Ruth-Marie, volunteer clown who provided entertainment, being interviewed by local television.

Then on January 6th “King's Day”, when toys are traditionally given to Mexican children, we distribute upwards of 30,000 toys to poor children who normally never receive a toy all year long, for either their birthdays or Christmas. It is such a joy to see their expectant little faces light up with a smile of sincere appreciation when receiving their toys, and we feel privileged to be the ones to be able to hand these to them.