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"There are times when language is not a vast barrier between people."
Kristina Blake
SDSU Student
Volunteer’s Build People’s Homes and Lives
Help Esperanza International Make a Difference
Have you ever imagined traveling to another country where you went beyond the typical tourist sites and completed a significant contribution to a struggling family?
Esperanza International hosts groups of volunteers in the Posada to help build homes and work on other projects in many underserved communities around Tijuana, Mexico. Volunteers generally work 3 to 10 days in an immersive experience of Mexican culture, of socioeconomic development, and leadership building. Volunteers may work on different stages of construction with two or more families of the community, which will give you plenty of opportunities to interact and experience their culture.
As a volunteer you will learn that teamwork is crucial to building a home.It is heavy work that requires everyone to help one another. Here we can learn what it means to be part of a bucket brigade! In real terms, it means using a pick and shovel in a foundation, filling buckets with sand and gravel to make concrete, passing buckets of concrete down a line to pour foundations, fill walls, pour roofs, and more. The energy, resources, and good will of Esperanza’s volunteers contribute manual labor and economic aid for the construction of a house. All this provides a collective work with the same vision: a program in which everyone participates and makes a dream come true; a program solid enough to provide quality housing with dignity for the families.
These efforts at social work within the community are so important that they make the difference between charitable assistance and self-help community development. Esperanza relies on its valuable volunteer’s commitment, spirit, hospitality and good will to keep empowering local community families to become self sustaining. Do you want to wake up and know that when the day is done you will have made a huge difference to a family in need?
