ISA Mundo Foundation

Members of the Global Youth Leadership Network – GYLN (Kelvin Au, Janice Lee, Aileen Lai and Chris Cheng) and Isa Mundo Foundation Founder and Director (Paul Lorilla) arrived in Boca de Tomatlan today to aid the development of a learning centre in the village of Boca de Tomatlan. We arrived early in the morning and…

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated each year on August 9th.  Since our launch in 2006, we have supported the United Nation’s message to protect and promote the rights of Indigenous peoples, specifically in countries and communities we work with.  Our education projects have ensured that Indigenous languages are also in…

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries. In our most recent visits to the Philippines and Mexico, we are reminded of the gap in the standard of living between North America and parts of the developing world. The inequality in education, health and safety is evident and that reducing poverty to improve situations of…

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. In various travels that Mundoers have accomplished, we have seen all forms of transportation, infrastructure and communication technology. Some are advanced, others are decades behind while parts of the world still lack any of those same services and technologies that people enjoy in the…

Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all. Isa Mundo Foundation has focused on education as a way out of poverty and can improve future economic situations of individuals and communities.  The UN estimates that close to half of the world’s population currently lives on US$2 a day and…

Isa Mundo Foundation will be joining a youth group in Mexico this month to officially launch a new partnership with the Boca de Tomatlan school. Mundoers visited the school for the first time in November 2017 and continued discussion on how to develop a partnership moving forward. The group provided a blog as a formal…

We are pleased to announce that our Co-Founder and Chair, Children and Youth Projects, Andrée Lacasse, was recently awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Victoria. Andrée’s contributions in her career working on Indigenous issues and her volunteer work as a Board Member of the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre were recognized by co-workers…

We would like to share a blog written by one of Isa Mundo Foundation’s project site visitors. We were able to arrange a visit to Casa Connor for Kiara Scott and family to visit the Pasitos de Luz centre. As always, we are grateful for Teena and Peter Oudman for their dedication in coordinating visits…

Isa Mundo Foundation visited Boca de Tomatlan and a start up education project focusing on English literacy and introduction to use of technology (laptops) and education software and tools to improve education attainment. The objective is to launch the education project in partnership with the elementary school in the village and eventually having local teachers…

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holidays and all the best iin 2018! We had a very successful 2017 and thankful to our supporters, long term volunteers, new partners, friends and families who continue to believe in what we are trying to accomplish. We wish everyone a peaceful, joyful and…