In October of 2019 I walked across the Santa Fe Bridge which connects El Paso, Texas to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and decided then and there the next phase of my life was going to be humanitarian aid at the border.

The first thing I noticed when I got to Juarez was families were sleeping on the street with little to protect them from the cold sidewalk. So I began distributing camping pads out on the street. I realized I needed to create a nonprofit to raise money for more pads and whatever else came up.

And so I've created Dormir es Poder (To sleep is to be enabled) or (Sleep is Power).There in Juarez I met a badass priest who spent her days on the Juarez streets ministering to the asylum seeking families. She soon knew I was in it for the long haul and asked me if I could come up with a way to show cartoons in Spanish out on the street to the children of the asylum seekers.

A consultation call with B&H in New York, a big back pack to carry projector, speakers and popcorn and within a few days we were having movie night on the street one to two times a week.

Eventually we lost our spot on the street and found a shelter deep into Juarez where we could continue to make life a little more normal, a little more fun for the kids.

As many of you who have followed Dormir es Poder on this journey know, the challenge to the migrants seeking refuge here in the U.S. is an ever changing one. With your help Dormir will continue to meet these challenges always with the main goal of providing much needed relief.

Thank you for taking the time here.

Douglas Winter
Dormir es Poder
doug@dormirespoder.org
(Trusted Service since 2019)