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Paper Houses Across the Border

Sponsor a Table

Feeding Hungry Children

Provide a meal every school day for eight children. I will send you a photo of the children you are feeding. Do it in honor of your parents, your teachers or your grandparents. Do it because you can.

Elementary & Kinder Cafeterias

Send a check to: Paper Houses Across the Border P.O. Box 604 Houston, Texas 77001-0604

$1,234 covers an entire table of 8 children for the entire school year!

“The children are too hungry to concentrate.

Some faint during class because they lack nutrition. Their parents are doing the best that they can, but we must find a way to feed these little children.�

Quote from a 1st grade teacher.

Paper Houses Across the Border P.O. Box 604 Houston, TX. 77001-604 Phone: 713.864.8741 WEB: www.paperhouses.org paperhouses@sbcglobal.net

We help them because we can.

Every Penny goes to the kids.

Education and Nutrition

Cafeteria One!

Beginning The neighborhood was surrounded by houses made of cardboard and a few small cinder-block houses.

The teachers were asked what type of school supplies would be useful and each teacher said something that shook me to the core. I expected to hear about the need for pencils, notebooks and maybe even computers. Their replies were more basic.

“The biggest need is to find a way to feed these children.”

“I have little kids passing out in class because they are so hungry.”

“Some are overweight. Their diet is mainly fried flour, fried beans, rice and tortillas. They lack nutrients.”

People criticized me when we began feeding 40-children in a school of 800.

It took two years, but we kept increasing the number of children we were feeding. In November of 2006 we built a cafeteria on the school grounds and are now feeding all 800 children at the Emiliano Zapata Primary school and 200 more children at a nearby kindergarten. Every school-day, a nutritious meal is provided to each child for free.

Why Us? Acuna experienced spectacular growth as foreign companies built factories after N.A.F.T.A. The residents in the colonia show us paystubs that are typically $40 to $60. We shop in Acuna and in Houston. The cost of living in Acuna is equal to Houston. People homestead open land and build houses from cardboard.

Schools are so overcrowded that there are morning and afternoon shifts! More schools are desperately needed. School sports, gymnasiums, libraries, and auditoriums are non-existent.

The children can’t bring sandwiches from home. The heat can reach over 100 degrees and many homes lack electricity.

Cafeteria Two! A second cafeteria was built by Giving Hope Worldwide. Paper Houses has allied itself with this organization and now we are feeding over 2,000 children! The children have been given hope.

They are studying hard and they will lift themselves out of poverty.

Like their parents, they are staying in Mexico to build a better Mexico.

There are many things in the world that we cannot fix.

Providing a nutritious meal and helping these children succeed is something we can do.

Eight children sit at each table at mealtime. To feed a table of 8chldren for an entire year costs “$1,234. EIGHT CHILDREN eat a meal every school day for an entire year for $1,234.