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HOW TO DONATE... updated December 2024
If you would like a US tax receipt, you can donate to us via the Foundation for Lake Chapala Charities - click here to reach their donation page for information on how to do this. Please scroll down the page to find our name...
They use PayPal, so if you wish you can make regular donations to us via the Foundation (that is wonderful!).
Or you can send a wire transfer. If you try to send a check, the Mexican banks will only accept checks for a maximum $250 US, and then it can take long time for the check to clear.
Because of the different Canadian tax laws, donations can be sent (for Poco a Poco) to a Canadian Rotary Club in Winnipeg West and they will issue you with a Canadian tax receipt.
The instructions are in this document which you will have to fill in and send to Rotary. (Then they will forward to monies to Chapala Sunrise Rotary here in Ajijic, and they in turn will give Poco a Poco the funds.) But please copy us on your correspondence so that we can also track your donation. Thank you so much Rotary! ​
If you don't need a tax receipt, and you want to donate via wire transfer to Poco a Poco, just contact us and we can help with this. (We are close to finalizing Poco a Poco as a registered Mexican charity, so some of this information will change when that happens.)
If you are in the Chapala/Ajijic area and would like to donate in cash, (sometimes this is a lot easier for us!) please contact us at this e-mail link, and we will arrange with you for a convenient pick up place/time. Please also provide your cell or phone #.
If you want to make a bank transfer to us from within Mexico, please click here to email us. As soon as we are through the final steps of becoming a Mexican charity, then we can open our own bank account. Until then, just contact us and we will find the best solution that works for you.
If you have a preference of where your donation is to be used, please let us know via email, so that we can respect your wishes.
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One of our biggest challenges is raising funds for medical expenses. We are helping many families with essential, life saving medicines and services especially for people with kidney disease. We also pay IMSS (Mexican health insurance) for a number of people so that they can enroll in the IMSS procotol program for renal patients. Then their medicines and eventually their transplant will be paid for.
Of course there are other programs that need your support too!
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If you want to support the Poco a Poco Childrens' Dining Room that we run at our community center, we would love your help! We need Regular donations to pay for food. But perhaps you would be willing to:
- Donate 24 eggs on a regular basis?
- Or beans and rice?
- Or meat bones and vegetables for a healthy soup?
- Or fresh fruit and vegetables for the children?​
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We need to provide nutritious food for these children, which includes protein, fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as water-based drinks.
We also need:
- To find a financial sponsor to pay Anita's salary. She doesn't just work with Poco a Poco, she is essential to other organizations a well,
so they can provide help. But they all need detailed information on people receiving help that Anita and her team have to collect.
- Anita is currently working with over 40 organizations (in January 2025)!
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- Financial help, so we can continue to build the community center on the land we have purchased;
- Financial support to keep our truck running and getting it serviced. Our truck (thanks to Ravi), is more rugged than our old one,
but it still needs regular maintenance.
- Financial support to pay for the office expenses for WiFi (so students can do their homework), electric bills, gas and electric for cooking;
- Clean drinking water for the Childrens' Dining room, as well as refilling the water cistern which is used for cooking, cleaning, and washing
hands;
- The ongoing costs of supplies used for First Aid (First Response) at our medical offices;
- Ongoing projects that give people in these areas ways to make a living, with pride.
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