Latin America Community Assistance

Foundation

To our Donors, Supporters and to the People

LACA Serves

The President’s Message

Dear LACA Family, When I told our founder, Lillian “Lil” Trillo, that I was voted unanimously to be the new LACA President, Board of Directors, she recounted the creation of LACA, "The Lord gave me a match and told me to light the fuse. Then LACA took off like a rocket!" We are keeping the rocket flying! With your help last year we were able to accomplish so many wonderful things for the poor in Latin America. In Mexico we purchased hospital Infusion pumps for the Tarahuara Indians - these will safely deliver medicines to patients in their Medical Clinic. Thank you to Fr. Miguel and our then-President, Jesse Canchola, for coordinating that. Nina Carolina Daycare Center: After helping rebuild the roof in the last year or so, we continue supporting the day to day operations at Nina Carolina. The Center provides a safe and nurturing environment for the little ones of the working poor in San Salvador. Scholarships - we now spend the majority of donations on helping young people better themselves and their communities through education. In 2022 LACA supported students in El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras. This year (2023) we added students in Panama. LACA members also individually supported dental surgery for a young girl in El Salvador and help for migrants in Piedras Negras, on the US/Mexico border. We are grateful to our contacts with the Franciscan Sisters throughout Latin America who are the “Sandals on the Ground” for many LACA programs. Thank you Sr. Isabel, Sr. Marlene, Sr. Carmen, and Sr. Maria Esther. 2022 Major Expenditures * Student Scholarships - $20, 414 * Tarahuara Clinic Infusion Pumps - $4,350 * Nina Carolina Day Care - $10,000 With all we do, LACA needs your help! Volunteer Help. I am thinking specifically of all the scholarship applications that come into me, in Spanish – and I don’t speak Spanish! We could use help with some translations, we could use some help keeping the website and Facebook updated with photos and stories, because I certainly don’t know how to do that. If YOU can’t directly help - I am sure you know someone who can, please ask them! Thank you and Bless you for your support of LACA Kevin Kevin.Sheil.Home@gmail.com

The Founder’s Message

LACA’s mission, since the very beginning, has always been focused toward the poorest of the poor. Initially, we began our efforts in Honduras, the most poverty-stricken country of Latin America. Later we spread to six other countries: Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama. During my term as founder and board president, we financed 35 water systems; funded homes for the poor; educated promising, poor youngsters; and took medical teams to the medically under served. LACA also supported an empowerment of women program in Panama and funded a daycare center in the poor area of Ciudad Delgado in El Salvador. My vision is that LACA continues to focus its efforts on the poorest and less fortunate of Latin America. Yours, Lillian R. Trillo, Founder and President Emerita

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