2023 Newsletters

December 2023

FoodBank Lakeside and CreSer Partners for a Mutually Beneficial Relationship

The deep and wide reaches of FoodBank Lakeside would not be possible without its community group partnerships. One such partner, CreSer, provides assistance to the local indigenous communities of Mezcala (20 kilometers/12 miles) and San Pedro Itzícan (27 kilometers/17 miles) east of Chapala. The primary goal of CreSer is to rebuild resilience and self-reliance in the communities it serves.

Community Worker and Dynamo Opens New Food Kitchen

A new community kitchen has opened in the village of San Juan Tecomatlan, just east of Chapala, with the support of FoodBank Lakeside. The driving force behind the Comedor de Banco de la Ribera (Dining Room of FoodBank Lakeside) is Guillermina Siordia Patiño, who goes by the name of Guille

Dalia Litzo receives but also gives in many ways

Dalia Litzo sees her inspiration every Friday. Her name is Layla, a 99-year-old friend and neighbor in San Antonio Tlayacapan who gets weekly help from Dalia at her home.

Foodbank Lakeside Building Community Partnerships Part 2

Three days a week, volunteers with cars transport large pots of cooked food from the SAT kitchen to the Ajijic DIF (Desarollo Integral de la Familia, equivalent to child and family services).

FoodBank Lakeside Building Community Partnerships Part 1

A partnership has been forged between FoodBank Lakeside and a community kitchen in San Antonio Tlayacapan (SAT) and the Ajijic DIF (Desarollo Integral de la Familia, equivalent to child and family services.

Key FoodBank Lakeside Volunteer’s Wife Faces Medical Crisis

The wife of one of FoodBank Lakeside’s most stalwart and long-term volunteers is facing cancer and a malfunctioning heart, and we’re hoping to get her some help.

Update: Son Now Attending College, Mom Still Gets By

A lot has changed since Paula Zuñiga and her son Rubben were featured in a FoodBank Lakeside website story “Families We Serve in Santa Cruz.” At the same time, much remains the same.

No Bones About It – Tony’s Plus Carnieria Helps Youngsters Get Essential Protein

Tony Andalon, and his meat-cutting crew, have a bone to pick. Actually it is over 50 kg of bones every week that often fill up multiple clear plastic bags. Several, in fact. Maybe “50, 60 or more” kilograms of bones each week, filling “five, six, seven, sometimes 10” large, clear plastic bags.”

FoodBank Lakeside 2022 in Review and a Look Forward to 2023

During 2022 FoodBank Lakeside was facing a changed world, still shaped by COVID, and coping with many other challenges. Still, the charitable organization and its donors met the needs of hundreds of Lakeside’s hungry.

Now what? Read More

February 2023

Ruling the Roost: Local Group Takes Hungry Children Under Their Wings

Birds of a feather flock together. Soon after they flew the coop (locating in Lakeside from elsewhere), they hatched their idea (no walking on eggshells for this group). And right now, they’re strutting their stuff for Poco a Poco and its top charitable partner, FoodBank Lakeside.

January 2023

Three Sisters Help Each Other Through Hard Times

The three Magallon sisters – María, Ofelia, and Marta – live in adjacent properties on a tidy and peaceful street in Chapala. Decades ago, this area was on the outskirts of town and was used as a dumping ground by the community, so the family was able to buy the land very cheaply and build houses there. The property was divided and shared among the three sisters when their parents died, and since then the suburbs of Chapala have grown around them.

Serving Lake Chapala Communities of Jalisco Mexico