For 30 Years, This Charity Has Quietly Changed Young Lives in Mexico Elisabeth Ashe - MexicoNewsDaily.com
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NOE International - Overview (NOE International)

Michoacán is in the news more often for violent crime reports than for positive stories, so it’s easy to overlook the success stories that are out there. NOE International is one of them.

For 30 years, this unique Christian nonprofit in the state capital Morelia has quietly labored to bring educational opportunities to low-income communities. It currently serves more than 1,100 students in three locations around the city with the assistance of donors, volunteers, sponsors and hundreds of supportive financial partners.

Among its main objectives is providing a safe environment for children that keeps them off the streets and out of trouble, but its efforts also benefit older youth and sometimes participants’ entire families.

NOE teaches core values and personal responsibility in its religious education classes while also providing fun and practical education in a safe setting. Its newest center, headed by director Juan Peralta — a former participant himself — is a bright, well-maintained building bustling with activity from enthusiastic yet well-behaved children.

Participants can choose from a range of elective activities: they can get academic help in a homework program. They can take computer classes. There are also health courses, voice and musical instrument instruction, and art or sports classes. NOE also offers English instruction, which is popular, as are its vocational training courses in carpentry, plumbing and electricity — the latter group of classes available to participants of any gender.

These courses are open to anyone age nine and up, and so parents will often end up taking classes too as their children participate independently.

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