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YARN! Annual Women’s Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico - Plant with Purpose


October 2-7th Carmen Mitre and Faith Rouse from the River Church are part of the 8 women team heading to Oaxaca, Mexico. We also have women from San Diego and Montana traveling with us this year.


 Needs: collecting yarn - basic 5 oz new skeins of yarn, as well as donations to help a family build a Family Garden. They are about 20-50 feet in size.


 Plant with Purpose provides the basic seeds, supplies and training to help a family establish a garden - they are about 20-50 feet in size. cathilundy@cox.net
"Plant With Purpose" is a Christian development organization that transforms lives in rural areas around the world where poverty and environmental degradation intersect. We equip impoverished farming families to change their circumstances, provide for their children, and live with God-given hope and dignity. We do this through sustainable agriculture training, land restoration, savings-led microfinance, church mobilization, and local leadership development. Since 2011, a team of women from the South Bay has visited villages where Plant with Purpose has ongoing empowerment in Oaxaca (one of the poorest states in Mexico). With some of our women returning multiple times, and returning to some of the same villages, we have built relationships and seen our impact in the economic, health and spiritual growth in those communities. Our focus is finding ways to come alongside to encourage and empower sustainable growth, and not do the work ourselves or make huge donations. www.plantwithpurpose.org. 

Coordinator of these trips is River (Belonging) relational contact: Cathi Lundy - cllundy@cox.net  


 www.plantwithpurpose.org/2017-oaxaca-wahines-fundraiser/

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