Mumbai Smiles gets its first supporters in Mexico

It’s proof that the Mumbai Smiles journey isn’t restricted by any boundaries.
The Mumbai Smiles office in Mexico – where it goes by the name Sonrisas de Bombay México – has begun to receive its first local sponsors, who are donating money to support our cause in Mumbai. Though people are mostly pledging smaller amounts and the bank process is complicated, this is a great first step, and things will only get better from here.

Many of you may know that although we have offices in Spain and Mexico, our projects are located only in Mumbai, so our activities in other countries are also arranged around this. While programmes in Spain are geared primarily towards fundraising and awareness, Mexico has different requirements.
This is because Mexico itself has a lot of poverty and issues of human rights violation. So, it makes more sense to us to work in tandem with local organisations in Mexico in a way that helps them and us. Mumbai Smiles is doing this through partnerships with non-profit organisations focused on education, health and socio-economic development in Mexico.

Mumbai Smiles Mexico will partner with the organisation in one of two ways -- a) through helping to implement a specific project that already exists b) through long-term planning, which involves designing a project based on the needs of the community.

The team in Mexico is working on arranging various partnerships, whereby Mumbai Smiles will give its support – not financial – but by donations in kind, volunteer referral, support for the dissemination of its work and projects, access to quality information in the field of development cooperation, among others.

Our happy thoughts and best wishes go out to our colleagues in Mexico, and we congratulate them for their great work!