NGO Status:
Buckner officially formed its NGO in April 2008 under the name “Familias y Niños Buckner A.C.”
Program Sites:
Los Mochis, Sinaloa; San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato; Cuernavaca, Morelos; Mexico City; Oaxaca, Oaxaca; Arcelia, Guerrero; Juarez, Chihuahua; Camargo, Tamaulipas; Naco, Sonora; Tecate, Baja California and Tijuana, Baja California.
Country Information
Location: Bordering countries are
Belize 250 km, Guatemala 962 km,
and the United States with the largest
border of 3,141 km.
Size: slightly less than three times
the size of Texas
Population: 108,700,891
HIV/AIDS Population: 160,000
(2003 est.)
Ethnic Groups: Mestizo 60%,
Amerindian or predominantly
Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
Languages: Spanish, various Mayan,
Nahuatl and 286 other regional
Idigenous languages
Religions: Roman Catholic 76.5%,
Protestant 6.3%, other .3%, unspeci
fied 13.8%, none 3.1%. While most
Mexicans profess the Roman Catholic
faith, a number of indigenous people
include strong pre-Hispanic Mayan
elements in their religion (syncretism).
Literacy: 91%, male: 92.4%, female:
89.6% In some regions such as
Northern Chiapas, close to 50% of
adults are functionally illiterate.
Population below poverty line:
35.5%
Government: federal republic
Capital: Mexico City
Administrative divisions: 31 state
History:
In August 2007, Buckner began exploring ministry opportunities in the Mexico interior, as well as along the northern Mexico border with the United States. Buckner has been made aware of an opportunity in Arcelia, Guerrero to help start an orphanage in collaboration with a local donor and two Dallas churches. During the last quarter of 2007, more doors for ministry opportunities have also opened in Oaxaca, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Sinaloa, Camargo, Juarez, Nogales and Tijuana/Tecate.
Buckner services and country support include:
• On-going humanitarian aid and Shoes for Orphan Souls.
• On-going mission trips throughout the year ministering to the children in orphanages in Arcelia, Guerrero; Mexico City; Juarez, Chihuahua; Camargo, Tamaulipas; Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas; Naco, Sonora; Tecate, Baja California and Tijuana, Baja California.
• Volunteer ministry opportunities with at-risk children through community centers and feeding programs in Oaxaca, Oaxaca; Mexico City; San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato and Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Also, provide job skill training, after school programs and parenting classes in these community centers.
• Pilot foster care program in collaboration with a Mexico City church for children born in prison, abandoned children and babies saved from abortion through the ministry of a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
• Water purification projects and development of micro enterprises (green houses) with indigenous people groups.
• Build and help develop day care program for at-risk children of single working moms in Juarez.
• You can view a summary of Mexico interior projects or Mexico border projects online or download the most current complete list of all Mexico mission projects.
