How did Niños Incapacitados get started?
I saw that however bad medical care was in Jocotepec, it wasn’t all that good in Chapala, either. A friend of mine, Mickey Church, who lived in Ajijic and with whom I had worked in the Chili Cookoff, decided that maybe we should try and do something there. We talked to the head of DIF Chapala, who is always the wife of the municipal president (mayor). Her name was Laura Robles. She was the daughter of the presidente instead of his wife because he was divorced. She was very interested because each woman who heads up DIF wants to leave some kind of monument behind. Hers was going to be the rehabilitation center in DIF. But it didn’t do much good to have that if they couldn’t get braces, or any of the stuff they needed for the center. We settled on helping just kids. No one could possibly take care of everybody so we took on disabled kids from birth to 16 years old. Robles was a great help plowing through the paperwork and getting things set up. The constitution was set up in 1993. The or
