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Why Help Los Angelitos?

GO0 Los Angelitos Orphanage is a not-for-profit children's home serving orphaned or abandoned children who would otherwise be living on the streets of the Tijuana-U.S. border area. We offer more than a place to sleep and eat ... we offer hope. Los Angelitos why Help Los Angelitos? Tijuana Street Children Population? (*=1000) Many of the children who arrive at Los Angelitos are tttt* what UNICEF defines as "Street Living Children" – children who run away to the streets due to intolerable Mexican Gov't Estimate (6,000) conditions at home such as domestic violence, child abuse, a parent(s) illness, addiction, and/or imprisonment.' Independent Estimate (20,000) Everyone's Responsibility As illegal immigrants are repatriated along the border the resources of cities like Tijuana become exasperated resulting in large populations of homeless. These conditions are ripe for the trafficking and commercial exploitation of children which influences both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. In 2010, over 17,000 unaccompanied children were repatriated to Mexico from the United States.“ Next Stop: DIF DIFA Street children are brought to the Mexican children's protective services agency (DIF) by local authorities. Some are even abandoned on DIF's doorstep. Children come to Los Angelitos by way of DIF agents looking for vacancies. From 2006 through 2011, the minimum wage and the cost of a daily food baskets per adult in Mexico increased at a disproportionate rate.7 Hourly Daily Basic Food Basket Increased Minimum Wage Increased 28% 117% Los Angelitos: A Place To Call Home Los Angelitos is unique because we raise the children who won't be adopted. We provide them with secure living conditions, a nurtured upbringing, a pleasant family life, and place them on the path to a higher education. We aim to break the cycle of abuse and poverty that is suffocating the Mexico-U.S. $5.000 $60,000 border area children. $5,000 Bare minimum that the children of Los Angelitos need per month. Bare minimum that the children of Los Angelitos need per year. A Place To Excel With new economic reforms on the horizon Mexico will be in dire need of college graduates to fill business leadership and policy-making positions. The knowledge acquired from a college education will allow our little angels to influence Mexico's society and economy. 2010 Gross College Enrollment Rates 73% 50% 28% Chile Argentina Mexico Building On What We Started Currently, Mexico is creating the tools and market to support investment, development, and growth.0 Los Angelitos is working to ensure that no child will ever be in a situation to have to return to the streets. Projected Mexican GDP" 6.5% The GDP measures the totalvalue of a country's output of goods and services 2.2% 2.2% 2005 2012 2015 How Can You Help? Online Fundraising Kit & Brochure Learn more about us, Donate Online and how you can help the children of Los Angelitos by visiting our web site at www.losangelitos.org DONATE DONATE share Us Company Gift-Matching YOUR COMPANY 200 1 http://www.mexico-child-link.org/street-children-definition-statistics.htm 2 http://www.ocregister.com/trave/children-19014-perez-mother.html 3 http://www.child-trafficking.info/upload/links/San%20DI- ego%20Action%20Network%20-%20Child%20Trafficking%20and%20the%20Commercial%20Sexual%20 Expl oitation%20of%20Children%20(CSEC)%20in%20San%20Diego%20County.htm 4 http://appleseednetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Children-At-The-Border1.pdf 5 http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19801409328.html;jsessionid=F94A3BF74ED58991FE5ABEB837F168AC 6 http://futurechallenges.org/local/beyond-statistics-informal-employment-and-mexico-city's-subway/ 7 http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?Queryld=7219 8 http://chronicle.com/article/Mexicos-Universities-Struggle/66143/ 9 Ibid 10 http://www.cnbc.com/id/49170270 Los Angelitos 11 Ibid

Why Help Los Angelitos?

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Los Angelitos Orphanage is a children's home that provides underprivileged children the opportunity to experience secure living conditions, nurtured upbringing, schooling, and a pleasant family life. ...

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