Where Your Gift Goes at Una Luz

What your gift supports

When you give to Una Luz, you support the whole program. Your gift helps provide lunch, learning, and care for children in Cartagena. It also helps our community kitchen prepare meals for neighbors.

We are grateful that people ask where their money goes. It is a fair question, and we want to answer it plainly.

Lunch and the community kitchen

Food is our biggest need. The 32 children in our afternoon program have lunch with us, and our kitchen serves around 100 neighbors each day.

Marylan and Doris cook with three other volunteers. Monthly gifts help buy groceries and keep the kitchen working. As we grow, we will also need better equipment and a larger space.

Monthly gifts support the classroom and community kitchen as a whole.

Learning and a dependable afternoon

After lunch, the children spend time with their teachers. They get help with schoolwork, practice everyday habits like brushing their teeth, and hear about God's love. They head home with a snack.

Your support helps pay for school materials and the modest stipends that support our local team. It also helps cover rent, electricity, internet, and other costs of keeping the classroom and kitchen open.

Our board in the United States serves without pay. Volunteers in Cartagena give their time alongside the local team members who receive stipends.

The longer view

We want to welcome more children and serve more neighbors. Monthly giving helps us plan for the work already happening and build toward a permanent school and a larger kitchen.

We are looking for 100 people who will give each month. You can choose US$10, US$40, US$100, or another amount that works for you. Every monthly gift supports the program as a whole.

If you would like to ask about a particular expense or see the work yourself, write to admin@unaluz.org. We would be glad to talk with you.

Give monthly or read about an afternoon with the children.