FAQ

We are a small organization. We have 501c3 status as a foundation the US and we are a non-for-profit association in Mexico.

Our organization includes our 8 staff members who run all of Tashirat as a team, and who live and work together full-time in Tashirat.

All of Tashirat was bought and built by the Tashirat staff members and their families. The Tashirat Orphanage children are each sponsored by our generous friends, families, and supporters around the world. We rent out our Bungalows Naturaleza bungalows to long term renters and Amatista Retreat Center  to retreat groups to support all of our basic administrative costs: legal fees, accounting expenses, transportation, general maintenance, repair materials, gas, water, electricity, phone bills, salaries of paid employees, etc.

Each child has 1 food sponsor and 1 ¨other¨ sponsor. The food sponsorship goes to basic necessities, while the ¨other¨ sponsorship goes to the remainder of the child’s expenses. Our university students also have education sponsors.

No, our staff members are full-time volunteers. They do not receive a salary. Their basic needs cost about 600 pesos a week (about 30 USD) and each staff member has a family member who sponsors him/her.

All of our children were channeled to us from the DIF (the government child-welfare department) after the DIF removed the children from abusive homes, or after the children were abandoned.

The children at Tashirat are no longer up for adoption. Our mission is to give a home and family to children who never received an adoptive family due to their age, cognitive, emotional and physical disabilities, or because they have multiple siblings. If you are interested in adoption, we can put you in contact with our lawyer who helps families to adopt.

We are legally required to protect the identity of the children in our care since they have been victims of crimes. We only show the faces of our children who are now over 18 years old and have given their written consent.