For more than two decades, the Twin Plant Women’s Association has provided a hand for the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez less fortunate. Now the organization is asking for a hand itself. It has begun soliciting $100 corporate memberships.

      “In our own small way we’ve raised more than $250,000 over the years to donate to organizations on both sides of the border,” says Patt Robles, current president of the Twin Plant Women’s Association. “These are smaller organizations that slip through the cracks.”

      Its main beneficiaries have been Juárez orphanages, but its giving is not limited to that. Funds have been donated to the YWCA, Lighthouse for the Blind, Boys and Girls Clubs, Child Crisis Center, Insights Museum, Rescue Mission, Damas Pro-Comercio and others. Twin Plant Women’s Association members and spouses have also provided sweat equity over the years, donating time and labor to various repair projects.

      Its main project is an annual Christmas party for a Juárez orphanage. Each year the kids are asked what one thing they’d like for Christmas and the association members go to work trying to make it happen. This year, 92 orphaned girls residing in Casa de Jesús and Casas Eudes in Juárez, along with the 16 nuns who are there as caretakers, had their Christmas wish granted.

      “The requests from the orphans are so meager,” says Robles. “This year it was heartbreaking. One child asked only for a towel.”

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