This nonprofit is helping to provide education to those children who might otherwise not receive an education. This provides them hope for the future.
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Being part of BajaEd has changed my life, through the organization, you can connect with many children and their stories, see how their lives change through education, and it is priceless to see their smiles of gratitude.
The BajaEd organization provides the opportunity for children to continue and finish their education, opening the door to a new quality of life and achieving their dreams.
Thank you to all the donors and staff who make this possible.
Educational center has been supporting students throughout the pandemic with impressions, use of computers and the internet for free! In addition to helping students with more than 120 backpacks with school supplies in this return to school. Every day, material is being delivered in bags because the backpacks have run out.
Mi nombre es Karen, soy nueva en la organización, lo poco que tengo siendo parte de esta fundación me ha dejado maravillada, la labor que hacen por los niños de nuestra comunidad, el corazón que tienen por las familias de Maneadero es increíble. Me encanta ver cuando vienen los niños a simplemente divertirse y la confianza que los padres nos tienen sabiendo que BajaEd es un lugar seguro para sus hijos. No solo es tener estudiantes becados, sino que también la instalación está abierta a todo estudiante de Maneadero. Por más fundaciones con este corazón.
We have collaborated closely with this foundation. We are very happy to see that children and young people have the opportunity to continue studying thanks to these scholarships. They also support the community with school supplies each new school year.
Baja Ed is a non-profit that scholarships children in Baja California Mexico. They give the opportunity to continue to study to children that otherwise would have the opportunity to afford to go to school. I love this organization and the lifes they are changing.
I grew up in the fields of Ohio cutting lettuce, loading trucks and hydrocoolers, and driving tractors on my family's vegetable farm. I worked alongside migrant workers all my youth and young adult life. So it was a huge pleasure to find Baja Education Initiative and see the work that they are doing within Mexico, helping migrant workers children get an education and opportunity!
This charity was born of a need to see children's lives changed in a permanent way in the agricultural area just south of Ensenada, Mexico. Since its inception in 2016, we have given scholarships to students from preschool through university, and now boast 10 university graduates and a client list of approximately 75 students. We were able to a open an educational center in February of 2020, where students could come to do homework, use computers/internet, print assignments, and receive tutoring. Little did we know how crucial this building would be just a month later, as COVID shut down public schools in Maneadero. Distance learning would have been extremely challenging for farmworker families without electricity or internet, and for children whose parents often have little to know education and may speak an indigenous language much more fluently than Spanish. As students returned to physical school in April 2022, we stepped in in other ways, in order to help prevent the reasons why children so often leave school in Mexico. We are proud to be helping break the cycle of poverty through education.
I am part of the Baja Missions leadership. We provided the initial feedback to Baja Bound that led to BEI being formed. And we have been one of the largest supporters of BEI, having donated over $85,000 since 2013, supporting BEI's operations and over 30 scholarships, from middle school to college.
Back in May 2022, some of the Baja Missions leadership attended the Baja Education Institute (BEI) Gala. After some activities with the kids in the BEI scholarship program in the morning and afternoon, the evening event allowed us to hear the stories of some former and current BEI scholarship recipients.
We got to hear from Dr. Karla Cormona, the very first BEI scholarship recipient. She went from orphanage, to graduating not only high school and college, but medical school (sometimes taking 2 buses for 3 hours one way into San Diego), and now works in a community clinic (and added another new title 5 months ago: Mom). She is one of the most amazing, humble, inspiring, loving, gentle people you could ever meet.
She along with the 5 other ladies shared their stories: growing up in orphanages and single family households, fathers and grandfathers not being supportive of girls getting an education, doing homework by candlelight, charging a phone at school before working in the fields 2-3 hours after school, then going home and doing homework on that phone, outside the neighbor's wall, late at night, in the cold, because they had to use their neighbor’s wifi. Just some amazing real life stories, as these ladies strive towards becoming physical therapists, a forensic scientist, teachers. I also met a young man in the BEI scholarship program in his final months of law school; he wants to be a lawyer for these impoverished families so they can know their basic human rights when working in the fields or living in a migrant farm.
Then, thanks to our partners, donors, and supporters, the Baja Missions leadership team was able to present a donation of $25,000 to BEI's scholarship fund.
Thanks to the support and generosity of our partners, donors, and supporters, we hope to hear many more amazing life stories like we heard this past weekend, as we empower these children and impact all of their future generations beyond a life of poverty.
From a personal perspective, I love being able to be a part of BEI's mission and ability to directly impact the lives and community in such an amazing way.
Hello my name is Gabriela, I'm the field coordinator of Baja Educational (BajaEd) in Mexico.
It's been wonderful to see how BajaEd is changing lives in Mexico.
The primary beneficiaries are families with minimal resources who have migrated to the north of the country of Mexico in search of better opportunities. Indigenous families who live in unfortunate conditions and who dream of giving their children a better future. However, the costs of education in this northern state of Mexico are sometimes impossible for these families to cover, and their children end up working in the fields for life just as their parents. That is where Baja educational comes in, supporting students with scholarships to cover all school expenses, transportation, and everything school-related so these children and youth can continue to study. We also have an educational center in the community where we provide free internet access and computers. Baja educational is changing lives in this community and allowing Children and youth to have access to education and thus be able to break the poverty cycle through it. BajaEd currently has 70 sponsored students that are enrolled in school and doing their best to achieve education.