La Casa Clu

La Casa Clu wow where to start.Yet another organization giving back to the underprivileged. Last year when we went to conference in Punt Cana we were given an opportunity to give back to a local school in need of help for a half a morning on our free day. We were also asked once again to that this year.
La Casa Clu is the organization that we became involved with. Before we headed out we were greeted at our hotel by Jessica Zepeda a psychologist who helped found this organization so she could tell us about what it is that they do and what it is she was looking for from us. Here is a recap from one of their donation pages

Jessica Zepeda 

La Casa Clü is a community center that works everyday with the children of San Ignacio, Nayarit, Mexico; a town where the violence levels are very high and the education, health, nutrition and infrastructure levels are very low. We are a band, a team, a club that dedicates everyday to learning and developing through play and personalised attention.Donate and support our workshops and daily activities so we can keep being part of the story of the children of San Ignacio. With your donation we will pay for salaries, buy material and maintain our land in good shape so we can keep dreaming, creating, and playing with our children.

Here is a link to an amazing video we got to watch https://youtu.be/T7Y5IDdmyBE

We then were taken over in shuttles to the property where we were given the opportunity to help with painting, gardening and playing with the kids. I have shared a few pictures of this morning on my Instagram and Business Facebook page but it is so much easier to share the bulk of them here. The work they do with these children is so inspiring as well as helping the families. We were told that they had received a generous donation from a benefactor in the Fall that has allowed them to purchase the land that they had been renting and is now allowing them to move forward with structures and buildings and providing the children with amazing experiences. 

We provided them with backpacks full of school supplies, gently used clothing or new clothing and non perishable food. These items will be used as rewards and to meet the needs of the kids away from the club. Children who behave well are taken on field trips things they never would get to enjoy with their families.

Now I will share with you some pictures of the kids and families. They were so happy to have us there helping they made us food and treated us so well and thanked us for what we brought to them. 

 Bamboo trees we were going to help plant

Set up to paint rocks to help protecting the new planting

 Kids at play

 many people were taking picture with the eagle wings. This one caught me at this little guys daddy was holding him up his parents were maybe sixteen if they were lucky

 A TTAND logo rock and some Canada Maple Leafs. Great talent among us

 little cutie enjoying some of the food

 kids and volunteers getting ready to play game 

some music and showing off some of the dancing/fighting they have learned

I know another fine group to give too they also welcome volunteers if you are going to be in the Nayarit area of Mexico, Here is their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/lacasaclu/

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