San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico - Entreamigos began in 2006 on a kitchen table in the middle of a San Pancho street. Today, housed in a giant warehouse recognized as a model sustainable facility, it is an active community center with classes and workshops, a scholarship program, a bilingual library for children and adults, a computer center, an extensive recycling program, a gift store and the Recicla thrift shop.

Here's the latest news from Entreamigos:

Environmental Fair "ECOnexión" 2018

The Entreamigos 2018 "Econexión" Environmental Fair took place in San Pancho earlier this month. Between games, EA workshops and local sustainable products in the Plaza del Sol, the event provided a mix of fun and learning to raise awareness about caring for the environment and a better quality of life for all.

School groups from all over the region participated during the day and then the fair opened up for our own San Pancho community in the afternoon. Hundreds of kids and adults had fun and learned a little bit more about taking care of our community and our planet. A great big THANK YOU to all of our participants and volunteers!

Our fundraising event was also a Children's Art Festival. This year, we connected artists and children interested in art to co-create unique pieces of artwork that were showcased in the evening.

Thank you so much to Candice, Craig, Frieda, Tania, Carol, Deb, Shirley and Tom for sharing their art and heart with the children! And congratulation to our little artist: Jimena Topete, Carlos Muñoz Rodriguez, Diego Arias Ramos, Diego Chávez, Jenny Mendoza Ferrer, Marcello Montaño Castro, Ashley Montaño Castro and Adesha Abarca López, you did a great job! If you missed the event, be sure to check out the photo gallery on Facebook.

Volunteers Make All the Difference!

Some of the projects in which our volunteers participated this year embellished and improved the Entreamigos facilities. They also made many direct hours of volunteering with our children and in key places of our project such as the Library, the Recycling Center and La Galería. From December to January we had 173 volunteers who donated 21,979 hours of work. In addition, 37 people participated in our fundraising event and 38 volunteers helped us at the Environmental Fair. Thank you to all of our volunteers for sharing their time, their skills and love! It is lovely to connect with such beautiful people!

Caring for our Environment

We do our best to promote responsible actions in public waste but we must all work together to continue this work. Please join us on Saturday, March 24 at 8:00 am for a San Pancho Beach Clean-Up. We'll meet at the entrance of the murals on Cuba Street.

Entreamigos is committed to our care for the environment and has been recognized regionally and internationally for our facility, recycling program and innovative education programs. Please click on the links below to learn more:

• Environmental Education
• Eco – Design Workshops
• Recicla San Pancho
• Recycled Playgrounds

You can support the important work of Entreamigos in many ways. We need volunteers and teachers, we need goods for our Recicla Shop and we always need real pesos and dollars to support our staff, our scholarships and to buy materials for our library. To make a donation, click HERE. Entreamigos is a 501(c)3 non profit organization. Your donations are tax deductible in the United States.