COVID‑19 update for Nazareth Orphanage
Every child deserves a home and to be loved. Help Outreach for Nazareth Orphanage 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 the next school year are scheduled for March 20, 2021. (Note: Trips may be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please check our Website often for updated information.)
NOTE: The Board of Outreach For Nazareth Orphanage (OFNO)) has been keeping in close contact with the Sisters that care for the children at the orphanage. As a result of these discussions and the ongoing pandemic, our trip planned for January 9, 2021, has been reluctantly cancelled. The current information is that all non-essential travel to Mexico has been restricted by the Center for Disease Control because of the COVID-19 crises. Moreover, California has continued to escalate its restrictions in light of the recent increases in reported cases. For the safety of the children, Sisters and the volunteers, we will be unable to travel to the orphanage in January. The Board will continue to monitor the situation to determine when we will be able to safely travel.
“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