The Netza School
Honoring Indigenous Culture and Celebrating Mexico’s Diversity to Advance Education and Opportunity– for All.
From its humble beginnings nearly fourteen years ago with forty indigenous street children gathered to study under a tree, to its second annual gala celebration, A Night of Aztec Culture, held last February at the elegant La Cala restaurant, the Netzahualcoyotl School (or Netza School) for indigenous and other deserving children, continues to break new...
Music to Build a School
During Zihuatanejo’s languid, steamy, summer months, after the tourists and snowbirds have flown north, Zihua’s musicians finally have time to take a deep breath and relax. That doesn’t mean that they stop playing however. The hottest live-music venue in town simply shifts to Ed Litchfield’s house in El Hujal. Several Saturdays each month, with a...
A New Community Center at Boca Lagunillas
Boca Lagunillas, located some 40 kilometers northwest of Zihuatanejo, is a small, dusty, one street poor village of approximately 150 souls, whose living is derived from basic agriculture: the raising of pigs, cattle, corn, mangoes, coconuts, sorghum (for the animals); and small family-size plots of chiles, tomatoes and vegetables grown for individual needs. Children tend...
Toward a Brighter Future – Por los niños
The 170 impoverished students at the Nueva Creación primary school still attend classes in wood and tarpaper shacks perched on a dangerous cliff face, but their future is beginning to brighten. Ground has been broken for a safe new school on 5,000 square meters of land donated, and cleared, by the city of Zihuatanejo. The...
