About Misión San Pablo:

At the Misión San Pablo children between the ages of 2 and 14 years, whose parents have died from AIDS-related conditions, are being cared for by three nuns from the order of "Las Misioneras del Cristo Resusitado."

Their order was founded in 1996 by Madre Bertha Chávez López, specifically to provide care to families impacted by AIDS. Since that time the order built an AIDS hospice in Tonalá for about 40 adults and 60 children.

Patients arrive at the Tonalá hospice in the late stages of the illness and are able to die in peace, knowing that the nuns will take care of their surviving children. To date, some 1,500 have received unconditional loving care in their final days.

The HIV-negative children were moved from the Tonalá facility to the Cedros location in 2002, with the goal of removing them from the stigma often associated with AIDS in Mexico.

Though physically healthy, these children are emotionally scarred ... they have watched their parents die ... many have siblings that are dying of the virus ... and all come from unimaginably disadvantaged conditions.

Moving to the Misión has been their first opportunity to rise above poverty, ignorance and violence.

Our children are introduced to unconditional love,
education, discipline and responsibility ...