Chapala, Jalisco · Since 2000
Love in Action is a Christ-centered home caring for girls who have been removed from dangerous or at-risk family situations. Mexico’s child protection agency places them with us. We give them what every child deserves: safety, healing, and people who stay.
2000
1,000+
children cared for in Chapala
13
girls call Love in Action home today
Our approach
Kids from hard places don’t heal in institutions. They heal in relationships. That’s why Love in Action focuses on small, family-style homes, each one led by a house mom who knows every girl by heart.
Each house is moving to one house mom or couple, backed by a tía, so the girls wake up and go to bed with a familiar face.
Our caregivers are trained in TBRI® (Trust-Based Relational Intervention), which helps children who have been hurt feel safe, connect, and grow.
We ask the girls what makes a house feel like home, and their answers shape it. That includes the young women who grew up here.
2027 at Love in Action
Literally and otherwise. We’re updating each house so it feels like a home, and rethinking daily life so the girls get more freedom, more skills, and more say in what family looks like.
Sponsor a caregiver
Our caregivers cook, comfort, help with homework and tuck the girls in at night. For $30 a month, you help pay the salary of someone who shows up for these girls every day.
Why caregivers and not kids? To protect the girls’ privacy, we never post their photos or stories for sponsorship.
One day, Anabel Frutos counted more than a hundred people in her house and yard. She knew they needed something more permanent.
What started in 2000 as meals from a carport became a home for girls with nowhere else to go. Twenty-five years later, Anabel is still leading the way.
A short update a few times a year: what’s changing in the houses, what you made possible, and how to pray.
Pedro Moreno No. 76
Chapala, Jalisco 45900, Mexico
+52 376 765 7409
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