Cómo puedes ayudar
Contributions
We also gratefully receive contributions that we can sell at our regular garden sales. This in turn raises much-needed funds to help purchase the necessities for our local families.
Food and Gently Used Clothes, Household Items:
**All donations can be dropped off at the following locations:
BOL Headquarters: Calle 16, between 115 and 120, Ejido.
Buzo’s Restaurant, Calle 26 Norte
Specific Items for Food Donations for Basic Weekly Care packages:
**Cases of one item are preferred over ‘one of each’ for ease of storage and distribution Boxes of Milk, Sugar, Beans, Rice, Small bottles of Vegetable Oil, Toilet paper, Baby wipes, instant Coffee, Small cans of Tuna, Medium Boxes of Tomato Paste
Holiday Gift Donations:
**Please do not wrap - bags with tissue paper are best
New toys, under 300 pesos each
(but feel free to donate as much as you’d like )
New clothes and shoes for boys and girls 3-13 (most are 5-12 years old)
Volunteer
Your time is also always appreciated. We host regular garden sales to sell the items that were generously contributed, and we also meet regularly to package together our despensas (food and basic necessities) for our local families.
Sponsor A Family
We recently introduced a very special program where you can “Sponsor a Family”, choose a family profile from our website, and commit to a monthly donation for their particular needs and follow their journey, getting to know them and watch your support bless their lives!
Breath Of Life Ministry is a passion project that was formed in 2020 by Michele Avila to help the impoverished families in Playa del Carmen (especially single mothers) who have needed help due to uncontrollable circumstances in their critical time of need. At first they bought groceries with personal money they could spare, but during the pandemic, more people came for help with no way to feed their children, and they had to start raising money to help cover the needs of the community.
The Breath of Life Ministry has now grown to provide bi-weekly grocery distributions to families in critical need, a weekly women's support group, teaching life and business skills, providing emotional and domestic violence support, weekly Sunday School for children, teaching Christian values and social skills, back to school support, emergency medical support, and Holiday Celebrations and Gift Giveaways for the children.
Christmas
As Christmas fast approaches yet again, we have two main initiatives that we are launching to help meet our community needs, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are looking for help gathering gifts for our Christmas and Dia de Reyes Celebrations for the children in the community.
We are looking for establishments or organizations who might HOST a TOY DRIVE at their location or meeting. (all donations should be unwrapped).
We will provide a list of special needs and ages and a Christmas wrapped box to collect donations, with signage about our organization and who we serve.
If the toy drive is at a specific meeting, we can also provide a member of our organization to come say a few words about Breath of Life and what we do. We are looking for any restaurants willing to donate any amount of refreshments, and paper & plastic ware, for our two Christmas Celebrations. (Dec.21 and Jan 4).
We are accepting cash donations toward our holiday and weekly community support.
Cash Donations
Of course, cash donations are always very gratefully received and can go a long way to helping our local community as we may even be able to arrange discounts on food and necessities when paying by cash.
También recibimos agradecidas contribuciones que podemos vender en nuestras ventas regulares de jardines. Esto a su vez recauda fondos muy necesarios para ayudar a comprar las necesidades para nuestras familias locales.
Comida y ropa de uso suavemente, artículos para el hogar:
** Todas las donaciones se pueden dejar en las siguientes ubicaciones:
Sede de Bol: AV. 90 Entre Calles 16 y 18, Ejido
BUZO’s Restaurant, Calle 26 Entre av. 25 y 30, Centro
Artículos específicos para donaciones de alimentos para paquetes básicos de atención semanal:
** Se prefieren cajas de un artículo sobre "uno de cada uno" para facilitar las cajas de almacenamiento y distribución de leche, azúcar, frijoles, arroz, pequeñas botellas de aceite vegetal, papel higiénico, toallitas para bebés, café instantáneo, pequeñas latas de atún, cajas medianas de pasta de tomate
** Por favor, no envuelva: las bolsas con papel de seda son las mejores
Nuevos juguetes, menos de 300 pesos cada uno
(Pero no dudes en donar tanto como quieras)
Ropa y zapatos nuevos para niños y niñas 3-13 (la mayoría tiene 5-12 años)
Tu tiempo también siempre es apreciado. Organizamos ventas regulares de jardines para vender los artículos que fueron contribuidos generosamente, y también nos reunimos regularmente para empaquetar nuestras desespensas (alimentos y necesidades básicas) para nuestras familias locales.
Recientemente presentamos un programa muy especial en el que puede "patrocinar una familia", elegir un perfil familiar de nuestro sitio web y comprometernos a una donación mensual para sus necesidades particulares y seguir su viaje, conocerlos y ver su apoyo bendecir sus vidas.
El Ministerio Breath of Life es un proyecto de pasión que fue formado en 2020 por Michele Avila para ayudar a las familias empobrecidas en Playa del Carmen (especialmente madres solteras) que han necesitado ayuda debido a circunstancias incontrolables en su tiempo crítico de necesidad. Al principio compraron comestibles con dinero personal que podían ahorrar, pero durante la pandemia, más personas vinieron a buscar ayuda sin forma de alimentar a sus hijos, y tuvieron que comenzar a recaudar dinero para ayudar a cubrir las necesidades de la comunidad.
El Ministerio Breath of Life ahora ha crecido para proporcionar distribuciones de comestibles quincenales a las familias en necesidades críticas, un grupo semanal de apoyo para mujeres, la vida docente y las habilidades comerciales, brindando apoyo emocional y de violencia doméstica, escuela dominical semanal para niños, enseñando valores cristianos y habilidades sociales, apoyo médico de regreso a la escuela, apoyo médico de emergencia y celebraciones de vacaciones y regalos de regalos para los niños.
A medida que se acerca el ayuno de Navidad una vez más, tenemos dos iniciativas principales que estamos lanzando para ayudar a satisfacer las necesidades de nuestra comunidad, ¡y necesitamos su ayuda!
Estamos buscando ayuda para reunir regalos para nuestras celebraciones de Navidad y Dia de Reyes para los niños de la comunidad.
Estamos buscando establecimientos u organizaciones que puedan organizar una campaña de juguetes en su ubicación o reunión. (Todas las donaciones deben estar sin envolver).
Proporcionaremos una lista de necesidades y edades especiales y una caja envuelta en Navidad para recolectar donaciones, con señalización sobre nuestra organización y a quién servimos.
Si el Toy Drive se encuentra en una reunión específica, también podemos proporcionar a un miembro de nuestra organización para que vaya a decir algunas palabras sobre el aliento de vida y lo que hacemos. Estamos buscando restaurantes dispuestos a donar cualquier cantidad de refrescos, y papel de papel y plástico, para nuestras dos celebraciones navideñas. (21 de diciembre y 4 de enero).
Estamos aceptando donaciones en efectivo para nuestras vacaciones y el apoyo semanal de la comunidad.
Por supuesto, las donaciones en efectivo siempre se reciben muy agradecida y pueden contribuir en gran medida a ayudar a nuestra comunidad local, ya que incluso podemos organizar descuentos en alimentos y necesidades al pagar en efectivo.
Contributions
We also gratefully receive contributions that we can sell at our regular garden sales. This in turn raises much-needed funds to help purchase the necessities for our local families.
Food and Gently Used Clothes, Household Items:
**All donations can be dropped off at the following locations:
BOL Headquarters: Calle 16, between 115 and 120, Ejido.
Buzo’s Restaurant, Calle 26 Norte
Specific Items for Food Donations for Basic Weekly Care packages:
**Cases of one item are preferred over ‘one of each’ for ease of storage and distribution Boxes of Milk, Sugar, Beans, Rice, Small bottles of Vegetable Oil, Toilet paper, Baby wipes, instant Coffee, Small cans of Tuna, Medium Boxes of Tomato Paste
Holiday Gift Donations:
**Please do not wrap - bags with tissue paper are best
New toys, under 300 pesos each
(but feel free to donate as much as you’d like )
New clothes and shoes for boys and girls 3-13 (most are 5-12 years old)
Volunteer
Your time is also always appreciated. We host regular garden sales to sell the items that were generously contributed, and we also meet regularly to package together our despensas (food and basic necessities) for our local families.
Sponsor A Family
We recently introduced a very special program where you can “Sponsor a Family”, choose a family profile from our website, and commit to a monthly donation for their particular needs and follow their journey, getting to know them and watch your support bless their lives!
Breath Of Life Ministry is a passion project that was formed in 2020 by Michele Avila to help the impoverished families in Playa del Carmen (especially single mothers) who have needed help due to uncontrollable circumstances in their critical time of need. At first they bought groceries with personal money they could spare, but during the pandemic, more people came for help with no way to feed their children, and they had to start raising money to help cover the needs of the community.
The Breath of Life Ministry has now grown to provide bi-weekly grocery distributions to families in critical need, a weekly women's support group, teaching life and business skills, providing emotional and domestic violence support, weekly Sunday School for children, teaching Christian values and social skills, back to school support, emergency medical support, and Holiday Celebrations and Gift Giveaways for the children.
Christmas
As Christmas fast approaches yet again, we have two main initiatives that we are launching to help meet our community needs, and WE NEED YOUR HELP!
We are looking for help gathering gifts for our Christmas and Dia de Reyes Celebrations for the children in the community.
We are looking for establishments or organizations who might HOST a TOY DRIVE at their location or meeting. (all donations should be unwrapped).
We will provide a list of special needs and ages and a Christmas wrapped box to collect donations, with signage about our organization and who we serve.
If the toy drive is at a specific meeting, we can also provide a member of our organization to come say a few words about Breath of Life and what we do. We are looking for any restaurants willing to donate any amount of refreshments, and paper & plastic ware, for our two Christmas Celebrations. (Dec.21 and Jan 4).
We are accepting cash donations toward our holiday and weekly community support.
Cash Donations
Of course, cash donations are always very gratefully received and can go a long way to helping our local community as we may even be able to arrange discounts on food and necessities when paying by cash.
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