Albergue Jesus el Buen Pastor de Pobre y el Migrante A.C.

The civil assosiation of the shelter is seven years old. Doña Olga´s work to help ill and injured migrants, indeed, already takes 20 years by now.

Though, building a new shelter and offering work capacitations to patiences would not have been possible without the support of a variety of national and international foundations.

And last but not least, the donations of hundreds of people who send money from the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Swizerland, Austria and other countries of the world.

Thank you very much for your collaboration. Every transferency that reaches the shelter is a relief in the diary struggle to raise enough money for surgeries, medication, tortillas, electricity bills, workshop materials...

The shelter has been and is supported by following organizations:

Olga Sánchez Martínez founded the Albergue Buen Pastor and today is president of the Civic Association of the same name. She is Mexican by birth and originally from Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas. The fact that she herself suffers from an incurable disease motivated her to begin to visit the sick in the hospitals near her home. She was moved by their situation and decided to dedicate her life to working for those who are most vulnerable and unprotected.

“I began to knock on doors and try to touch hearts, but many didn’t open. They told me that what I was doing was illegal, because the migrants come from other countries and lack papers. Here in Mexico, no one valued these people. But my heart told me to not see them that way and that instead I should see them as my brothers and sisters. I became filled by this belief, and it made me continue fighting with them. And when I went to bring some of these migrants back to their home countries, I was able to understand the grand poverty in which they live.”

"Doña Olga portrayed by the US-American artist Maria Allen-Koerner."

¿Quieres ser voluntario?

El albergue brinda una oportunidad para aquellas personas, que quieran vivir una experencia enriquecedora y que le ayudara a crecer como persona.

Es una oportunidad para dar lo mas importante que tenemos, nuestro tiempo y nuestro trabajo, a personas que se encuentran en un momento de su vida muy muy muy dificil.

Las actividades en el albergue, son muy diversas, ya que el albergue vive de la caridad de las personas y del trabajo duro de voluntarios (vendiendo pan, donas, ropa usada, entre otras cosas), nuestro personas de base son muy pocos y es por eso que unas manos extras serias muy buenas.

Requisitos:

1. Ser mayor de edad, hablar de un 70% en adelante de español.

2. Estar dispuesto a realizar las actividades que se les asigne, respetar el reglamento del albergue y respetar los horarios.

Paso a seguir:

1. Enviar una correso de sollicitud con datos siguientes: nombre, edad, nacionalidad, idiomas que habla (escrito en español) estudios y actual empleo y/o actividades. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

2. Responder las preguntas que se les envie despues de recibir su correo.

Lo importate de ser parte de los voluntarios del albergue, es lo positivo que tu dejes en el albergue.

Te esperamos

NOTA: el albergue no cuenta con dinero por lo que tu apoyo tiene que se voluntario y sin esperar ninguna remuneracion economica.

Dalai Lama Honors 49 heroes of compassion

Foto: Robert Bengtson

San Francisco, CA, April 26, 2009 – His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be the honored guest at a luncheon at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, April 26, 2009. His Holiness will acknowledge and thank the 49 highly compassionate individuals who are the honorees of the Unsung Heroes of Compassion 2009 event.