San Ignacio Home, Farm and School

San Ignacio Home is home for 58 children between 5 and 18 years of age. The majority were abandoned by their families and San Ignacio is the only home and the only family they know. The children all have a task on the farm in an effort to be as self-sufficient as possible. They milk the cows, feed the pigs, and harvest the corn. They also help with the daily chores in the home – baking bread, sweeping, washing clothes, all the tasks associated with 58 children.

San Ignacio School now has more than 800 students in grades 1 – 12; and has been named a model school winning awards in sports, music and scholastics.

BCF plans for 2009 are to provide additional desks for the classrooms and to fund farm projects to increase food supply for the Home, and additional revenue for the Home.