Cemanahuac works with a social service program called VAMOS!, and students have donated over 50,000 bottles of vitamins to this fine organization, which serves over 2,500 lunches for poor children per week. Dessert for the children is a vitamin pill. VAMOS! serves the poorest of the poor in the state of Morelos, and through them our students have come to a new understanding of the social reality of Mexico, which is poverty for over half of Mexicans.

Patty and Bill Coleman were US citizens who lived in Mexico for many years and who saw and experienced, first hand, the problems and/or issues that face all Mexican families. Together with others, in 1991 they initiated the programs that VAMOS! offers, in an attempt to alleviate these problems. Patty continues to carry out the work she and Bill started together.

VAMOS! is currently funding well over fifty separate projects, all of which provide income for Mexicans and dignity in their work.The Hispanic population in the United States increases by almost a million people each year, according to Census Bureau projections, and they will become the largest minority population by the year 2010.Currently, about 22 million people in the United States speak Spanish at home, and sadly, many of these people and their families fall below poverty levels. Those who work with clients or patients in a social work or health-related environment find it important to improve their Spanish language skills and their understanding of the Hispanic culture.

For more information on Vamos, visit their web site at http://www.vamos.org.mx