Programs at Centro Santa Catalina

Below is a comprehensive list of programs offered at Centro Santa Catalina.

Our Programs:

• Valores, Fe y Vida (Values, Faith and Life) is a
  4-year program of personal growth and development for area women.
  Graduates of the program now are paid to teach the classes. The classes
  cover spiritual growth as well as leadership development and
  values-based decision making. The women also study and reflect on
  Scripture as it relates to their own lives.
• Thirty women work in a sewing cooperative, making and marketing products typical of Mexico. Profits are shared equally among the members. The women sell their hand-made products through this website. 
• Eight women participate in a gardening cooperative, growing organic vegetables for their families and to sell.
• The pre-kinder and kindergarten enroll 105 children who receive educational instruction as well as Catholic teaching. The teachers are all women of the colonia who are paid a just wage and receive scholarship assistance to further their own education.
• Tarea (Homework Help) serves 300 children with
  educational enrichment, physical exercise, Catholic values and a safe
  environment to enjoy. Eleven women are paid as tutors and also receive
  scholarship assistance for their own education.
• Scholarships for children in elementary and
  secondary school. Families with few means find it difficult to keep
  children in school in Juarez because of the costs associated with
  registration, monthly fees, books and uniforms. Each woman who regularly
  attends Valores, Fe y Vida receives scholarship assistance to help keep
  her children in school. The amount given is fifty dollars a year for
  families with elementary school children and one hunderd for families
  with children in secondary school.
• Youth Group Twice a month on Saturday mornings the secondary and preparatory school youth gather at the Center for various activities coordinated by parent volunteers.

Feel free to look around the website to learn more about our
programs, the stories of some of our women and other news from the
Center.

In the Products section of this website you can also see all the
items produced by the sewing cooperative. Order forms are available
there as well; all products can be ordered by mail. We regret that at
this time we cannot accept orders over the internet or payment by credit
card.