Where Faith Finds Its Dwelling

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MANO AMIGA 2026

It Starts With One Family

Every family arrives at Mano Amiga with a different story, but each carries the same hope: that education and faith can open a brighter future for their children.

At Mano Amiga Monterrey, three families show what can happen when a school does more than educate a child—it walks beside a family.

A Dream That Became a Future

Pacheco Family

Eusolio and Eli Pacheco Martínez arrived in Monterrey seventeen years ago from a village that could not give their family what it needed. They came with two daughters, with many dreams, and with a faith they have never lost in any circumstance they have faced.

Belinda, their older daughter, has just finished at Mano Amiga and is about to enter university. Rubí, their younger, is in fifth grade.

They are deeply grateful, they say, to everyone who has walked alongside them on this journey.

A Faith Passed On

Kelina and her mother, Zitlali

Zitlali Ramírez came to Mano Amiga with her children and found more than a school. She found a family—a place where teachers know, support, and spiritually embrace each child.

Her son Patricio completed elementary school at Mano Amiga before answering an unexpected call to the minor seminary. He has now completed his first year with an Academic Excellence Award. His sister Kelina, at Mano Amiga since preschool, is thriving.

Like the faith St. Paul describes passing from one generation to the next (2 Timothy 1:5), Zitlali's faith is taking root in her children. Home planted it. Mano Amiga helped nurture it.

Since Preschool

Karla and her mom, Elsa Zavala

Elsa Zavala is eleven years old and has been at Mano Amiga since preschool, for as long as she can remember. She plays soccer in the Tournament of Friendship and has two cats, one adopted and one rescued. Her friends are as familiar to her as she is to them. Every day she continues learning, and she especially appreciates the values she is given there. She already knows she will carry them for the rest of her life.

She is only eleven. And she already knows what she has been given.

Three different families. One school that knows their children by name and helps parents form them in faith, character, responsibility, and hope.

At Mano Amiga, education does not replace what begins at home. It strengthens it.

Across 20 Mano Amiga schools, more than 10,500 families are being accompanied through education and formation. More than 9,000 students have graduated. Of those graduates, 90% continue to higher education, and 80% return to work in their own communities.

They are not simply being given a way out. They are being formed to transform their communities from within.

Another family is waiting for that opportunity. Your gift helps keep the door open—supporting classrooms, caring teachers, Catholic formation, and a community that walks beside families year after year.

You are not simply supporting a school. You are investing in a family—and in everything that family can become.

Give today and help the next Mano Amiga family build a future rooted in faith, dignity, and opportunity.

Help the Next Family Begin Their Story!