March is the month for women and is celebrated internationally on the 8th or 9th of the month. Once in a while Lakeside celebrates its heroines. Last month was one such occasion at Huerto Café in Riberas, a restaurant well known for helping local charities. The comparatively new Poco a Poco organization, taking on the …
Welcome to another year. A time to make amends and change things we can if they disturbed us last year. Try to find a private place for grief and spread happiness by being part of what is happening in your world. Looking back, what is it that has plagued the world for a long time we still haven’t …
We approach the end of an exciting year after an incredible November of Ghouls and Goblins, and a revolution thrown in for good measure. The Tepehua Community Center was chosen by the Ghouls as their charity, with the help of Michael Jackson, as people danced their way into giving financial help to assist in the water …
In Mexico, prostitution is legal under federal law, however, each of the 31 States enact their own policies and only 13 States allow and regulate prostitution. It is not legal in Jalisco. Mexico City has its´ red light district, regulates the activities and even has retirement shelters for ex-prostitutes. Most of the states are not …
The Tepehua Centro Community Center was built on dreams, promises and disappointments, built by a few with tenacity and the help of many who believed that change could come. Some of its successes were built on other people’s pain. To the local people it was a lifeline that they themselves had to take hold of …
For over a century we have been talking about women’s rights and the equality of man around the world. Equal pay for equal work, equal status for all races, and the right to practice faith as one sees it, feels it. In marriage a woman is not owned, she has the same status as her …
A PROFILE OF A WOMAN. (A Tepehua Story). My name is woman, I have the face of poverty. Like so many of my sisters I was born into poverty with a dysfunctional Father…but there was love. It was the challenges he faced that were bigger than he could handle. He escaped into the bottle and …
Next year on Mother’s Day, take a bunch of flowers to the village and give one flower to every old woman you see. Perhaps you’ll bring a smile to her face. Great Grandma Jarvis, who lived in the United States in the late 1800s, had 13 children, of whom only four survived. One of the survivors …
An Intergovernmental Government was formed in 1998 under the United Nations to draft legislation that would directly address and combat transnational crime.
By Moonyeen King
