Category Archives: Mexico

Mexico, Sewing Partners

Sewing Machines to Oaxaca, Mexico

Shipped 72 sewing machines to Neighbors Abroad, Oaxaca, Mexico: 13 March 2026On March 13th, 2026, we shipped 72 sewing machines to Oaxaca, Mexico, with the North Hunterdon Rotary Club in support of Neighbors Abroad. With help from local governments, we had a special opportunity to ship to our direct neighbors down south as part of a shipment of humanitarian aid to the region.

Oaxaca is a lively town recognized world-wide as one of Mexico’s creative and artistic centers, known for the region’s fantastical folk art and other highly regarded crafts. Oaxaca and the surrounding region face economic, healthcare, and other challenges typical of developing countries. Our sewing machine aid is a perfect supplement to bolster the economic opportunities a sewing machine can provide in a lively, artistic community.

bicycles, Mexico

First P4P Partner in Mexico!

Summer/Fall 1999 InGear

Desarrollo Rural de Guanajuato (DRG), a 22-year-old affiliate of the Mexican Rural Development Foundation, is P4P’s first partner in this important U.S. neighbor, the hemisphere’s most populous Spanish-speaking country.

In June, 1999, P4P loaded a single-container record of 553 bicycles—collected in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts—and shipped them to DRG, donating shipping as well as the contents.

DRG works in rural communities throughout Guanajuato, an impoverished and arid state in the central highlands northwest of Mexico City. By project’s end, DRG will establish seven bicycle reconditioning and repair centers providing stable employment for bicycle mechanics and managers, while offering reliable and economical transportation to more than 1,000 low-income workers, students, health and education personnel. Guanajuato, which in the 17th century was the world’s largest producer of silver and a prosperous region, has since been in economic decline.