How Your Donation Helps

How Your Donation helps

Your contribution goes directly to the following:

His Wings Ranch is very resourceful. A little financial support goes a lone way. We uses volunteer labor and donated supplies to meet a huge portion of our needs. This means money received is leveraged to make a huge impact. For example, donated funds to buy a gallon of paint are matched by a donated structure to paint and volunteer labor to paint it. Here’s where your support goes:

Therapy Horses

Your donations provides food, training, stalls, saddles, bridles, horse blankets, helmets, horse shoes and a Ranch Hand to facilitate. Physical therapy horses require years of training to become proficient to provide a behaviorally stable and predicable animal who can accommodate both physically and emotionally disabled kids. The ranch has full grown trained physical therapy horses as well as two new colts who are beginning a multi-year long training program so that we can better accommodate more kids.

Therapists

Your donation helps facilitate therapy for the kids through student volunteers from U.S. college therapy programs. It also pay for local therapists as well as equipment and facilities to serve 85 kids with a wide ranch of emotional and physical needs. This includes Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Behavioral Specialist, Speech Pathologists and Orthotists to fit leg braces. As a licensed physical Therapist Sue is qualified to treat the kids directly as well as train other therapists.

Wheelchairs, Walkers & Braces

Donations pay for parts and accessories for wheelchairs, walkers and braces. Much of our base supply is donated but they need to be modified and adjusted so that kids can simply navigate the Mexican dirt roads to connect with others in their community. Because they are growing kids they outgrow their chairs and braces. We have responded by creating an entire wheelchair workshop dedicated to customization and repair. Like a shoe store, we need to increase our chair size availability. We also need to be able to repair and adapt chairs on the fly. Your donations help pay for repair parts like new wheels and pads as well as a wider selection of leg braces.

Medical Assistance

Donations pay for medicine and regular medical services associated with diseases such as Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy and Down Syndrome. This can mean kidney dialysis 3 days a week and full time caregivers for our most vulnerable. His Wings Ranch helps parents apply for life changing surgery grants through non-profit groups like Shriner’s hospitals as well as “Fresh Start Surgical Gifts” so the kids can get medical solutions in the US without cost.

Family Assistance

Donation pay for food, blankets and housing as well as our community youth center and playground. Keeping families with special needs kids together is our calling. We help parents to take care of their own children by helping establish basic housing, providing blankets and food and supplies and coordinating daycare so parents can work.

Special Education

Your donations help purchase school supplies from pens, paper, and crafts to tables and chairs. It is also used to pay for local special education teachers who are willing to teach the kids for a fraction of the cost of a teacher in the US. Special needs kids in Mexico are essentially unserved in the public school system. The newly formed special needs classrooms at His Wings Ranch are the only option for local kids with these needs.

Partners Leveraging Your Donation

Do You Have Items To Donate?

Thank you so much for thinking of His Wings Ranch when it comes to donating used items to the ministry. There are a number of specific items we would appreciate receiving that would directly impact the children we serve. Things like wheelchairs, walkers and braces can’t be obtained easily obtained in Mexico and would be welcomed. More on what we could use below.

One of the challenges we face is bringing items across the border. To do so requires a formal declaration to the Mexican government weeks before we transport the items at which time we may also have to pay an import tax. This is a cost of serving the kids which we pay to transport specific items of need across the border.

On a practical level this means that miscellaneous items you may set aside for the thrift store may not be a fit for us. Things like clothing, old toys and sporting equipment may best reach a charitable user through large thrift stores like The Salvation Army.

That said you may have some horse equipment, special needs chairs and desks, wheelchairs and braces, specific medical supplies, bulk supplies of family assistance items like blankets, classroom staples like printer paper or other items you think may be useful.

Text a Photo to Sue

If you are interested in donating an item. Text a photo of they item(s) to Sue at 619 870-1844. She’ll let you know if the ranch can use it.

Also be prepared to deliver the item to the His Wings Storage room in south San Diego near I5 in Chula Vista.

If it’s a fit we’ll share with you directions to the facility. You can also have a conversation about questions with volunteer communications director Bradley Heintz at 858 688-4452

Testimonials

My experience at the ranch was quite overwhelming and humbling for me. I was brought to tears witnessing a little girl learning to walk again after having been sent by Sue and Johnny to Portland for scoliosis surgery. Sue and Johnny put their blood, sweat, and tears into everything they do and are two of the most humble, blessed servants of the Lord south of the border. Many thanks to them for creating such a safe haven for the children in need and their families.

"I visited the ranch and was blown away by the extent of the service being provided by Sue and Juan. As a parent of a single, high functioning special needs child of my own, I could appreciate the monumental task they were successfully taking on. I was amazed to see the number of special needs children Sue and Johnny were caring for and the significant physical and emotional struggles they were navigating with each child. Truly remarkable. Sue and Johnny are the real deal. They are constantly working, seven days a week. They are not just taking on the most challenged kids but doing it successfully on a shoestring budget, sometimes in the dirt without water and electricity. They commuting across town on broken Mexican roads to bring the kids to the to ranch to provide therapy which is the highlight of their week and sliver of hope. They do so much for so many that I was inspired to help them help others."

"I first met Sue over 10 years ago at her orphanage for disabled children in Tiajuana. I witnessed her love and devotion for the children first hand, and was inspired to do more to help. We built a play set that day, but more importantly, we built friendships with families and their children. I will always remember the birthday parties for the kids, and the other things that she would do to help them to feel as one of her family. After 2 more trips to HIS Wings facility in Rosarito, the scale of her vision has grown, and her care and devotion for the children and their families has not wavered. Sue and Jonny are tireless in their commitment to the neighborhood, and only want what is best for the children. Despite the extremely limited budget, I am amazed at the growth of the facility and the physical and emotional improvement in the children. They remain available for years to come to serve, guide and teach those who few others will reach."

Bringing my special needs son to the ranch was a "dream come true". After 7 years and 5 months of knocking on doors and asking for answers, I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know it was Jehovah who responded to my tireless pleas because I know He has the means to answer our prayers. Ricardo is now "Under His Wings." For the first time, he has the opportunity to be treated by specialists from another country, geneticists, and a whole group of incredible human beings committed with love to ensure he has the best possible quality of life on this earthly plane. I have nothing but gratitude for God and all those who have been part of this process, my family, friends, Don Noé Segunda Tata and the entire Carmona family, Dr. Karla Carmona, and Susan Fasino, who comforted my spirit.

His Wings Ranch