Ottawa garage sale

We are pleased to announce that we held our first
Isa Mundo Garage Sale on June 21st in Ottawa.
All proceeds went to our Clean Water in El Salvador
Campaign - a campaign which aims to contribute
two water tanks to the villages of Las Mercedes and
El Naranjito in El Salvador. The garage sale
helped us raise almost half the funds needed
to complete this Campaign.

Party Favours for Isa Mundo

On June 7th, Isa Mundo Foundation attended and celebrated a wedding of one of its friend and keen supporter. The bride & groom decided to pay tribute to the Foundation by donating the budget intended for party favours to a worthy cause. Their donation will be going towards our newly launched Road to Success Campaign - a project to help build a service road for an orphanage in Guatemala.

We would like to thank the newlyweds for their support and for including Isa Mundo Foundation on their special day. We wish them all the best in their new adventure!

Two New Campaigns

Isa Mundo Foundation launched two campaigns to help two communities.

The first is Casa de Sion, a small orphanage in Panajachel, Guatemala, near the shores of Lake Atitlan. The orphanage needs a service road that will connect it to the main highway, therefore improving the delivery of water, medicine, food, school and other much needed supplies.

The second campaign is for the villages of Las Mercedes and El Naranjito in El Salvador. This project is with Engineers Without Border Oregon State University Chapter. The group has designed an efficient, locally sustainable and environmentally friendly gravity fed water system in order to provide these communities with a reliable access to clean drinking water.

Please visit the Isa Mundo Foundation website for more information about the communities and the current campaigns.

"Mighty Lights" A Huge Success

We would like to announce the completion of the Light Up A Home project in La Providencia, Guatemala. In partnership with Engineers Without Borders (EWB) - Marquette University Chapter, the Mighty Lights were installed in all 35 homes in the village. EWB Project Lead, Tom Zalewski stated that the "villagers were excited and truly appreciative of the lights".

We are a attaching a formal letter of 'THANKS' from EWB and also pics of the Mighty Light in two of the community homes.

We would like to thank everyone who contributed and sponsored to Light Up A Home in La Providencia.

To see additional photos of the project, click on: Mighty Lights

School of Champions - Children of the Dump

The Isa Mundo Foundation visited the School of Champions and the Children of the Dump organization near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We sent 30 boxes of school supplies to the School of Champions in May 2006, becoming the first official project of Isa Mundo. We learned from this current visit that the School has accomplished incredible things and have provided education to many children in the area.

In the past 10 years, the organization has not detached itself to its mission of helping children realize the promise of a better life. In addition to providing education, the organization serves breakfast, lunch and hot meals to 2,300 children each school day. It has created an after school classes for 130 to 150 children from grades 3 to 6 and operate 9 day care centers, each with a capacity of 25 children ages 3 ½ months to 3 ½ years.

Isa Mundo was able to bring donations to the School with the help of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle's toy store. We have committed to donate much needed educational games and language learning tools to the school in the near future.

To learn more about the organization, please visit: www.childrenofthedump.org

The World of Diaper Pins

Isa Mundo is learning many things about the world of diaper pins through their work with the Mi bébé y yo Project in Lake Chapala, Mexico. After having visited the Project in December of 2007, Isa Mundo learned how rare diaper pins are in the area which is needed to complete the gift baskets that the project donates to mothers and new born babies in Guadalajara. Isa Mundo started looking for a supplier willing to donate diaper pins and after countless emails and phone calls we finally received an answer from April MacKinnon, owner of Nurtured Products for Parenting, a mother operated online business. April felt very moved by the work of the Foundation and agreed to form a partnership with Isa Mundo and donate the much needed diaper pins, as she mentioned, “I stand with your foundation that children are our future, regardless of where they live on the planet, and it is our job as parents to help those less fortunate.”

For all the parents out there looking for environmentally sustainable products provided by a Canadian based company please visit their website at www.nurtured.ca

Mrs. Tiggy Winkle's

Great news! Mrs. Tiggle Winkle’s, an Ottawa based toy store full of creative and innovative playthings, is donating educational games to Isa Mundo. We will be bringing the supplies to the Children of the Dump's School of Champions in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This school is located a few steps away from the main garbage dump of Puerto Vallarta. The school is doing wonderful things for the children and the surrounding communities - it is a place where children can find refuge instead of having to work in the dump picking up garbage and whatever else they need for their survival. The school's main goal is to empower children through education in order to have an opportunity for a better future.

Thank you Mrs. Tiggy Winkle’s!