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Eternal Anchor’s 2024 Annual Impact Report, sent to donors in early 2025, is now available to read online. Learn more about the difference our international network of supporters is helping to make in the San Quintin Valley.
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Eternal Anchor
In the heart of rural Mexico, our team is building a movement of inclusion—bringing people together across cultures and backgrounds to ensure that children and adults with disabilities are seen, valued, and empowered to thrive.
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We serve more than 250 families impacted by disability.
Eternal Anchor was founded in 2014 to respond to the unmet opportunity of serving individuals and families impacted by disability in the communities of rural Baja California, Mexico.
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We aim to heal social divisions.
We work hard to heal social divisions so that all members of our community can be valued, experience belonging, and reach their God-given potential.
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Understanding quantities, recognizing prices, managing money, and making purchases are skills we use every day. But learning these concepts in a classroom is only part of the process. Applying them in the real world is where that learning becomes especially meaningful.
Sometimes, one of the most valuable classrooms doesn't have four walls. It's right down the street, at the neighborhood grocery store.
At Eternal Anchor, we believe education should prepare students for more than completing classroom assignments. It should help them build the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence they need to navigate the world around them.
Recently, students from our Buzos classroom visited El Florido, a grocery store in Vicente Guerrero, as part of their ongoing lessons about quantities, money, and purchasing everyday items. The visit gave students opportunities to put their classroom learning into practice while developing other important skills. They worked on identifying products, understanding prices, making purchase decisions, communicating with store employees, asking for assistance, and navigating a familiar community environment.
Experiences like these bring together several areas of learning at once. Mathematics becomes practical when students compare prices, count money, and understand quantities. Communication skills become meaningful when they need to ask a question or explain what they're looking for. Decision-making and problem-solving become part of the experience as students work through the steps involved in shopping.
For students with disabilities, community-based learning is an important part of inclusive education. It provides opportunities to practice independence, build confidence, strengthen social skills, and feel more comfortable participating in everyday activities in their community.
And independence doesn't mean doing everything without help. It means developing the skills to make choices, communicate needs, ask for assistance when necessary, and participate as fully as possible in daily life.
That's what makes experiences like this so valuable. The goal isn't simply to learn how to shop. It's to give students opportunities to use what they've learned, make their own decisions, and become increasingly active participants in their communities. #InclusiveEducation #LifeSkills #Independence ...
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In Eternal Anchor's Capitanes classroom, Alondra has been working on fine motor skills through activities that involve identifying, sorting, and manipulating geometric shapes. Her teacher recently shared that she has successfully learned to recognize and sort three of those shapes: the circle, triangle, and square.
Activities like these bring together several important areas of development. Along with strengthening fine motor coordination, they encourage visual discrimination, problem-solving, concentration, and recognition of relationships between objects.
For Alondra, recognizing a circle, triangle, and square represents an important accomplishment in a learning process that requires practice, concentration, and persistence.
This accomplishment matters not just because of how many shapes Alondra can identify. It's the learning that has taken place along the way, the skills she's developing, and the opportunities those skills create for continued growth.
Her teacher acknowledges that there's still plenty to learn, but also understands the importance of recognizing what Alondra has already accomplished. Progress doesn't have to wait until every goal has been reached to be worth celebrating.
Today, we're celebrating Alondra, the work she's put into learning, and the dedicated educators who support her along the way. #InclusiveEducation #StudentProgress #DisabilityInclusion ...
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Physical therapy doesn't end when a session is over. Some of the most meaningful progress happens when the skills, exercises, and encouragement developed during therapy become part of everyday life. That's why family involvement is such an important part of Eternal Anchor's Health & Therapy Services.
When parents and caregivers participate in therapy, they better understand their child's abilities, the goals they're working toward, and how to support continued development at home. Just as importantly, our therapists gain valuable insight from the people who know each child best.
It's a partnership built on shared knowledge, realistic goals, and the understanding that families are not simply observers in the therapeutic process. They're essential members of the care team.
Involving families also helps make therapy more sustainable. Exercises can be adapted to familiar environments, new skills can be practiced throughout the week, and caregivers can feel more confident supporting their child's development without feeling that they must become therapists themselves.
At Eternal Anchor, effective therapy isn't just about what happens during an appointment. It's about working together to create opportunities for learning, participation, and greater independence long after the session ends. #PhysicalTherapy #DisabilityInclusion #ChildDevelopment ...
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