June brings good news for mission’s Special Children in Tijuana: A new bus

The month of June brought good news for the Special Children of Tijuana.  In 2009, the San Eugenio Mission started a “Giving Hope to Special Kids” Program to provide services to children with special needs (i.e. autism, attention deficit disorders, Williams Syndrome, sight and hearing deficiencies, and others) that are left behind by the local public school system.

In June, the program received much needed help, a new bus to provide transportation to the center for these special children, and their families.   The new bus purchase was only possible thanks to grants from an U.S. foundation and the Mexican government.

Staffed by a team that includes a psychologist, a social worker, a special education teacher, a language therapist, and a coordinator, the program gives these children a chance to be diagnosed and treated, as well as to learn.

More that 140 young people have already been receiving these services for some time, but many more in some of the most remote areas of the mission were limited in their ability to travel to the community center where the services take place.

To reach out to these latter children and their families, who do not have the ability to travel to the community center, and transport these children to the center and back everyday, last June the San Eugenio Mission was able to purchased a new bus.

The purchase was made possible by a grant from an American private foundation and one from the Mexican government.