Por Los Ninos donations

How Tragic.

Carol Romain, the new administrator of Por Los Ninos, sent an email plea to our Sailfest/Por Los Ninos volunteers. Within two hours, they have responded with more than $3,000.usd in donations for the devastated families. We expect more to follow thru our sister charity in Portland, Oregon.

Mexican law limits our Por Los Ninos non-profit funding to educational purposes. We are stretching that definition to donate an additional $20,000 pesos from existing funds for food under the category of student nutrition.

Those folks in the United States and Canada may join our efforts by donating on-line thru www.porlosninos.com. You will receive a U.S.tax receipt from our sister (501)(C3) public-benefit charity, Los Ninos, Inc, in Portland, Oregon. These are the funds that will be used to help the families, combined with the volunteer donations noted above.

As Carol often remarks, "We have two hands, one to help our selves, and one to help others".

Carol's msg read:
Por Los Ninos del Municipio de Zihua will accept your tax deductible donations to help the students who were burned out in yesterdays fire in the colonias near Octavio Paz School. A fire is a terrible thing to go through but at Christmas even worse. 100% of your donations will go directly to the kids to purchase the things they need to return to school in January. Uniforms, shoes, underwear, backpacks. lets show them what we are made of!

I am confused between her's and yours. You state you have already received 60,000 pesos(which were collected with a premise that 100% would be spent for school supplis FOR THE STUDENTS and want to spend 20,000 for food. 40,000 pesos still seems a lot for uniforms, etc for the students of this small school and now you are saying "help the families"
I do not doubt Carol's good intentions at all but the extranjero's sending money and the Mexican gov't need transparency.