Jun. 17, 2011

A group of students from California Western School of Law in San Diego crossed the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this month to visit children in a Tijuana orphanage. Megan Fletcher, Ashley Negrette, Miguel Marquina, Irving Pedroza and Agustìn Peña – all members of the school’s La Raza Law Students Association – joined a group of 11 people who delivered supplies to the El Faro 1 children’s’ facility. El Faro serves 65 children from infancy through pre-teen ages in one of the Mexican’ city’s roughest neighborhoods. Using funds from its spring 2011 Tijuana fundraising event, the association purchased diapers, laundry detergent, housekeeping and personal care items, backpacks and soccer balls for the orphanage. “The children and staff greeted us with open arms,” Peña said. “We had a great time playing soccer, pushing them on the swings, reading to them, and just being a shoulder to rest on.” California Western School of Law’s multiple community service efforts were recognized by President Barack Obama as the only law school named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction in May.