The Embrace the Dream Foundation, Inc. (EDF) is a nonprofit, Christian mission organization that provides love and care for orphaned and abandoned children in Mexico. EDF supports ten orphanages in Mexico. The primary home EDF supports is Casa Hogar La Familia in Central Mexico, which is currently located in temporary quarters in Tehuacan, about four hours east of Mexico City in the State of Puebla. At the present time, La Familia provides support for 28 children ranging in age from four months to 18 years.
Bill Lee, president, founded EDF after spending eight years leading mission teams to Mexico. In 2009, EDF has set a goal to raise $100,000 to complete construction on a new orphanage that will be built in Palmarito, a small town in the State of Puebla. This new facility will include a two-story main home with younger children on the ground floor and teenage girls on the second floor, a home for teenage boys and a home for infants. When completed, the estimated capacity of the new orphanage will be approximately 96 children.
Prostitution is the source of approximately 40% of the children EDF currently supports, so one of the greatest needs we currently face is a place to care for one of the products of prostitution ― abandoned infants.
EDF not only provides lodging for the children, but in addition strives to ensure that each child has a better future. The children begin learning English at an early age and are taught from childhood that to support a family, they must finish high school and go on to either technical school or college. Academic and Christian education are integral parts of each child’s daily regimen.
For more information about The Embrace the Dream Foundation, Inc., you may email Bill Lee at Blee3paris@aol.com. EDF’s address is PO Box 5558, Greenville, SC 29606.
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