Emmanuel Homes – Tijuana, Mexico
At the Emmanuel Homes orphanages, many children come from the streets. Most of them give their young bodies to prostitution just to survive. They are invited to leave their street lives and live at the boys’ or girls’ homes. There, they find lots of love that comes along with food, clean clothes, a nice bed, an education, and a chance to heal. It is a place where lives are transformed.
The Story of Christian
Christian’s mother invited her drug-addict boyfriend to live with their family when Christian was only three-years-old. Not long after, his mother was a drug addict, too and she left her job to receive more money as a prostitute in order to support her drug use.
Her clients would visit the home all hours of the day. Frequently she woke Christian and his little sister up and had them go outside while she used their bed. When she was not under the influence of drugs, she would hit her children with wood sticks and light cables.
Eduardo Mendez met these two children on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico. He invited them to live with other children between the ages of seven and fourteen at the Emanuel orphanages. Not long after, they moved to the home where they receive education, which will help them break the cycle of poverty. In this safe environment of the Emanual homes, with the nutrients of food, the probability of them growing up to be responsible adults has increased.
Today, over one hundred children are starting to live their lives transformed by the program of the Emanuel homes, including Christian and his sister.
