Thank You!

We are blessed to share that this Giving Tuesday, between our facebook campaign and donations made directly through Mentor a Mentor’s website, we raised $2,550... fifty dollars more than our goal!! WOW! With that amount we will be able to support one Mentor a Mentor instructor for one full year of classes with youth at risk in their community! Thank you!

Our hearts are overflowing, and we are so grateful to all of you who supported Mentor a Mentor financially, as well as through your prayers and moral support! The work these instructors are doing in their local communities is not easy, nor does it come with much praise or pats on the back. For these instructors and children, to see the way you rally around them and support them from afar truly is such an encouragement-to all of us!

We (Rebecca, Javier and Valentina) are thrilled to be heading down to visit our sites, instructors and children in northern Mexico this January. We can’t wait to share with them in person the love that has overflowed from all of you.

As 2019 comes to a close we wish you all the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years! If you missed our Giving Tuesday campaign and are interested in donating, there are still funds to be raised to sustain our existing programs in 2020. Visit our SUPPORT page here to make an end of year donation.

As always, thank you for your generosity and love. It truly means so much! Stay tuned for an update of how these funds are being used in the New Year, and check out some highlights from our sites below!

Jose David, Capoeira student with Mentor a Mentor Instructor Gabriel at Orphanage Adonai in Chihuahua, Mexico.

‘I have the good fortune to feel proud of having learned this martial art (Capoeira). At first I didn't understand it at all, and to be honest the first year it even bored me. But with the first Bautizado I participated in, I felt excited and proud of how I had begun to learn, slowly but surely, and realized what it was I could actually achieve...Our instructor is amazing.’

When we met Andres Manuel at his secondary school, located in an especially rough area on the outskirts of border town Ciudad Juarez, he was on the verge of being expelled from school. Now he goes classroom to classroom demonstrating breakdance and inviting other students to join him and Mentor a Mentor instructor, Daniel, after school to learn together.