MAIROS DON BOSCO

Mairos Don Bosco works in four interrelated areas in Guadalajara: street education, an emergency shelter, a more permanent shelter, and prevention of homelessness. It is a project of the Salesian Fathers and maintains a close relationship with the Ciudad del Niño, Don Bosco, in León.

Mairos begins its work on the street, where outreach workers get to know the street kids and begin to develop a relationship with them. Afterwards comes the three stage house system: a drop-in center, an emergency shelter, and a long-term shelter. Mairos, the name of the organization, comes from a local term meaning “teacher” or “outreach worker.”

In all programs, Mairos offers breakfast, help with school, games, sports, job-skills workshops, and arts and crafts. Job skills include carpentry, ceramics, woodworking, painting, and “pirograbado” (burning designs into wood).

Mairos Don Bosco serves 21 children in the emergency shelter, 15 in the long term shelter, and 70 on the street.

Mairos Don Bosco
Madero 759
Guadalajara, Jalisco
México

tel: 33 38 26 54 69

contact: Guadalupe Sánchez Segura, mairosdonbosco@att.net.mx
o lupitasanchez@att.net.mx