The Mission of Puente de Conexión
Puente de Conexión empowers communities through cross-cultural interactions including educational, athletic and art experiences.
La misión de Puente de Conexión es empoderar a comunidades a través de interacciones interculturales incluyendo experiencias educativas, atléticas y artísticas.
Bridget B. Espinosa
President / Executive Director
María Elena Blanco
Vice President / Creative Director
Diane Barnes
Treasurer
Laly Ayhllon
Assistant Director
February 9, 2016Thanks to the Farmington Voice!
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September 30, 2015F.C. Conexión
After spending just a few days helping Basketball As A Mission in July 2015, Bridget was immediately connected with the PE teachers at the Fe & Alegria K-12 School. She asked what she could do to continue to help their community and Fernando Peguero said that
September 30, 2015I need to help!
This post was originally published by Puente Cultural Integration on August 11, 2015. Published with permission from Bridget. B. Espinosa.
September 30, 2015What’s Your Passion?
This post was originally published by Puente Cultural Integration on August 18, 2015. Published with permission from Bridget. B. Espinosa.
Quotes
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It
"Embracing diversity is one adventure after another, opening new paths of discovery that connect an understanding to caring, listening, and sharing with others who are different than ourselves."
"It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members and to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
"The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth."
"I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical, so it's humiliating. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people."
-- Eduardo Galeano
