What started as a tradition with her grandfather, donating to the poverty in Ciudad Juárez has now become a community effort led by the owner of an El Paso bakery.
“When you arrive, when they see someone arriving with things to donate, I think it just lights up something in them where maybe we show up at that one moment where they lost all hope and we show up and it’s like, ‘okay, there is hope,'” said Kimberly Schmidt, owner of Délice Bakehouse.
With the cold weather, Schmidt says she sees the needs of the children and families in the pueblos they visit — now they go to Puerto de Palos, which was introduced to her by her niece…