COVID‑19 update for Nazareth Orphanage
You can help Outreach for Nazareth Orphanage support every child in need by giving. Together, we can provide much-needed housing, education, and support for the lost, the left behind, and the less fortunate.
In 2017, realizing the ever-present danger of human trafficking of at-risk young girls, Outreach for Nazareth Orphanage (OFNO) initiated a fundraising campaign “Girls Everywhere Matter” (GEM) to raise $750,000 for the development of additional campus facilities beginning with a dormitory and dining facility designed to accommodate up to 50 young orphaned girls for the first time at the Nazareth Orphanage in Tecate, Mexico. These facilities will provide the girls with the same safety and life-sustaining necessities as the orphaned boys.
Outreach For Nazareth Orphanage (OFNO) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works to support the fundraising and volunteer efforts that benefit all at-risk young boys and girls at the Nazareth Orphanage in Tecate, Mexico. OFNO’s efforts help the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and of the Poor provide a safe home environment as well as other necessities needed to support the children.
Mexico is an origin, transit and destination country for trafficking victims. Investigations have risen by one third in the last few years, but the country is having trouble tackling the problem. All of us can do our part to save one child at time.
Homeless children in Mexico are orphaned
Orphan children rely on the goodwill of strangers
Human trafficking victims are never rescued
Meet Father Brian F. Kelly, Spiritual Moderator, and the rest of the OFNO family that are helping orphans and families everyday.
MEET FATHER KELLY & THE OFNO FAMILYFour Saturdays during the school year, OFNO volunteers travel to Nazareth Orphanage in Tecate, Mexico to participate in a day of volunteering alongside the children and Sisters. The daylong trips begin early in the morning, and volunteers return to San Diego that same day. Volunteers help with maintenance projects such as gardening or painting the facilities. We are so grateful to those that assist, and no experience is necessary. Help us make a difference!
Our trips for this coming school year are scheduled for September 23, 2023, November 11, 2023, January 13, 2024 and March 23, 2024. (Note: Trips may be canceled due to continuing pandemic issues. Please check our Website often for updated information.)
Please keep checking the Website to sign up for your favorite project on our next trip.
Thank you for your generous donations to Nazareth Orphanage. Through your donation, we have accomplished our Phase 1 goal and can continue working towards raising funds for Phase 2. You truly make a difference for us, and we are extremely grateful!
“The king will answer them: ‘I assure you, as often as you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me.”
-Matthew 25:40