Vicente Guerrero, Baja California, Mexico

Vicente Guerrero, home to Welcome Home Outreach (Casa Hogar Bienvenidos), lies 175 miles south of the U.S. border crossing at San Ysidro/Tijuana, in the center of the San Quintin (pronounced kin-teen) Valley.

Ocean breezes help provide a temperate climate in Vicente Guerrero, which lies three miles inland from the Pacific Ocean.

The San Quintin Valley is a primary agricultural hub with farms in the area growing such crops as tomatoes, strawberries, onions and other vegetables. Farm owners hire agricultural works at about $9-10 per day to work the fields, and they provide ground on which the workers and their families “squat.” A majority of these farm workers have migrated from the Mexican mainland state of Oaxaca and built makeshift shelters for their families. These settlements are referred to as “migrant camps” and the children enrolled in the Welcome Home daycare come from these camps.