The Chiapas Project

Our most immediate needs are:  

Living and Operational Expenses 

$800 each month allows us to live, pay the rent, buy food and provide medicine for our neighbors and friends. It also helps us with gasoline for the vehicles and pays one salary for the woman who guards and maintains the flowers at our little ranch.     

Dormitory with Bathrooms for Passing Migrants 

With $9000 we could build a 30’ by 30’ building with bathrooms and showers for whomever comes along- and for the homeless in our little township. Many Central Americans come past our farm every day. We have been putting some up in our little cabin but the woman who stays there as the guardian is severely inconvenienced as we store our tools, etc. in a one bedroom place.          

Community Chapel/Church                                                                              

$15, 000 would allow us to finish up a chapel/church in the community of 5 de Marzo where we have worked for the last seven years. We have three walls ready in concrete block but with $15,000 we could finish off the roof, floor, main doors and a wall for the rear. As it now stands, 150 people from the community are meeting in a wooden structure inside the three walls.  

Toyota 4Runner of 1997 or 1998 or $10,000 to Buy a Similar  Vehicle  

The Toyota is what we can get parts for. We currently have a VW van which we use daily to transport children and women around the town of San Cristobal. We use our truck at the farm because it is a farm truck. Araceli and I would like to travel gathering videos and arrangeing programming for SCOLA T.V. out of Omaha in the Indigenous languages- The 4 Runner or a double cab pickup from the same period would be perfect for where we have to go. 

For a list of all our projects, please visit www.thepathwaysproject.org and look up The Chiapas Project amongst their fine web page.