Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice 202 Harvard SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-268-9557   Updated: 15 May 2009 Newsletter May 2009
May 2009 Newsletter Contents Noticias Membership Application	Noticias Successful fundraiser for Hilaire Thanks to the Peace and Justice center for your help at my fundraiser, April 5th. If not for you, I would not be able to pay the lawyer to help with my visa. Peace be with you forever, and my best wishes for your projects. -Hilaire N. Thanks for your contributions to La Luz de la Esperanza and Our Lady of Palomas After driving through the beautiful Southwest, we arrived in the border town of Palomas, Mexico, where Esperanza Lozoya and her volunteers serve senior citizens. "For most of our clients, this is their only meal of the day," noted Lozoya. Esperanza and her 7 promotoras de salud diligently serve 40 senior citizens whose relatives cannot afford to attend to them or who have lost their relatives due tothe narco-violence in the border area. La Luz de la Esperanza provides friendship, health care, medicines, clothing and other needs. They do magic, too: they can turn fifty US cents into a healthy and balanced lunch to feed an adult. We then crossed the solid concrete-and-steel checkpoint north to visit with the founders of Our Lady of Las Palomas and learn about their efforts. One of these is the weekly distribution of groceries, as part of the Hunger Project, to 10 families in Palomas. Other efforts include women's mentoring, micro loans, and tree-planting in Columbus, NM. Each group received $100 from you. The clothes, non-perishable food and donations you contributed went to the senior center south of the line.
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