Hilda Pacheco-Taylor has raised millions of dollars for orphanages in Mexico.
She started a nonprofit back in 1994 called Corazon de Vida. It sends money to 10 orphanages spread across Tijuana and Ensenada.
In Mexico, orphanages get very little government support. So, Pacheco-Taylor, who grew up in Mexico but now lives in Southern California, uses her cross-border contacts to help keep money flowing from one side of the border to the other.
“It’s a critical connection between the two countries,” Pacheco-Taylor says.
Pacheco-Taylor isn’t just some disconnected do-gooder. For her, the issue of orphaned kids in Mexico is deeply personal.
From KPBS and PRX, “Port of Entry” tells cross-border stories that connect us. In a new episode, the podcast wraps up a series on cross-border love stories with Pacheco-Taylor, a woman who completely changed her life, dropping everything she was doing so she could help take care of some of the border region’s most vulnerable kids instead. It’s a story about kids who need love, and one woman’s mission to help them get that love by turning her own pain into power and purpose.
