Bhutanese Refugees
Over the past
two years, the Village has helped to resettle close to
200 Bhutanese refugees arriving into the United States to live in Las
Vegas. Many have spent the
past 18 years of their lives living in refugee camps in Nepal after
being exiled from their native country of Bhutan. Though we are not an
official government agency, the Village has, out
of its own resources, provided refugees with food, shelter,
finances, household items, furniture and most importantly, guidance,
friendship and community as they try to survive and acclimate into a
foreign
culture.
For more on the
Bhutanese, click here.
Whitney
Elementary School At-Risk
Program for Kids
The Village has gladly partnered
with Whitney Elementary School in Las
Vegas, where 85% of the children that attend are considered 'at-risk.'
Many of the children enrolled at Whitney come from homeless,
drug-addicted or immigrant families that live on the margins of society
right here in Las Vegas. Whitney has done an excellent job
in establishing a healthy environment for children to gain stability
and
begin to thrive. This includes a food and clothing bank for the
children's
families, as well as a community job fair, doctor, dental and vision
care for the students. We applaud the efforts of Whitney Elementary
School and their visionary principal, Sheri Gann. The Village has
helped in various volunteer projects such as holiday food baskets,
clothing drives, birthday projects, etc.
For more information on
Whitney, watch
this
CNN
video.
Casa Hogar Sion
Orphanage Project /
Tecate, Baja Mexico
The Village is an integral part of
the development of the new Casa Hogar Sion orphanage
on twenty acres of land near Tecate, Baja Mexico. Casa Hogar Sion is
currently located in one of the most dangerous and drug-invested areas
in Tijuana. twice a year volunteers from The Village travel to Casa
Hogar to help renovate and make repairs to their current facility. We
are due to break
ground in May 2011 on a state-of-the-art sustainable campus that will
be the home to two hundred children.
For more on Casa
Hogar
Sion, click here.
