AMISTAD CANADA is a CRA-registered Canadian charity that works to improve the lives of Mexicans in need through better health, education and social justice.
We currently have thirteen projects in partnership with Mexican NGOs, with proven track records. Nine are based in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, one in the Lake Chapala region of Jalisco, one in La Manzanilla, also in Jalisco, and one in La Crucecita, Oaxaca.
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Amistad's Partners
La Biblioteca de SMA provides scholarships and free classes on a range of subjects not adequately covered in Mexican schools.
La Catalina Fundación provides scholarships and free language and literacy classes to students in La Manzanilla, Jalisco and surrounding areas.
Children's Art Foundation students develop greater self-confidence and esteem by learning to express themselves through painting and writing.
Escuela de Educación Especiale de San Miguel de Allende enables deaf children to become literate, independent and productive citizens.
Feed the Hungry SMA is committed to seeing that no child in San Miguel suffers the pain of hunger.
Jóvenes Adelante grants scholarships to hundreds of San Miguel area students attending college and universities across Mexico.
Educating girls is the key to ending poverty. In 2018 Mujeres en Cambio gave scholarships to girls from 46 villages in rural San Miguel.
Ópera de San Miguel is dedicated to identifying and supporting Mexico's most promising young opera singers.
Patronato Pro Niños provides health and dental care to thousands of children in San Miguel's poorest communities.
Por los Niños de Zijuatanejo supports education by providing students with healthy meals, granting scholarships and building classrooms.
Programa Pro Niños Incapacitados supports severely ill and disabled children and their families in Ajijic, Chapala and Jocotepec, Jalisco.
SOME – So Others May Eat – provides poor senior citizens of San Miguel de Allende with healthy lunches, medical counselling… and more.
Un Nuevo Amanecer (A New Dawn) is a Mexican non-profit civil association that operates a school and offers support services for children with developmental problems and other disabilities in La Crucecita, Bahias de Huatulco, Oaxaca.